On Thursday, a major journalism organization denounced CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s behavior during a press conference earlier this week.
Al Tompkins and Kelly McBride, both faculty at the Poynter Institute in Florida, saidAcosta’s actions — which included challenging the president’s answers to his questions — didn’t “represent the best of journalism.”
“Things got uncomfortable when Acosta refused to turn over the microphone to an intern who reached out to remove it from him, and then stood up to continue his banter without the microphone,” McBride and Tompkins said.
After indicating that Acosta turned the presser into a “cable news wrestling match,” McBride and Tompkins argued that Acosta should have “handed over the microphone.”- READ MORE