The reason that the petition exists is that Trump banned the CNN reporter
because the reporter was asking questions that Trump didn't like. I posted this
article because Peter heard Sarah Ssanders tell reporters that the CNN reporter
was banned because he molested someone and he wanted objective information as
to whether or not this was true. My response was that I heard the whole
interchange between the CNN reporter and Trump, and clearly, Trump was furious
at being challenged by the reporter. Peter continued to wonder about the truth
of what Sarah said. My response was that she lied, just like her boss does. The
petition is a response from the public, asking the White House reporters to
stand up for the press.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2018 10:16 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: 330,000+ Sign Petition Calling on White House
Press Corps to 'Stand Up and Fight Back' After Acosta Blacklisted
I don't know Carl.
I have this fantasy that someone from the press will really stand up to him
when he bullies them at one of these press conferences. Maybe it'll actually
happen one day, but I think they fear losing access so much that they'll endure
just about any kind of humiliation so long as they don't get ostricised.
Maybe one of them will have had enough one of these days and really give Trump
one of those Joseph Welch "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
moments.
Evan
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Jarvis
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2018 9:40 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: 330,000+ Sign Petition Calling on White House
Press Corps to 'Stand Up and Fight Back' After Acosta Blacklisted
Donald Trump is making a mockery out of the Press. If the Press can't find the
intestinal fortitude to demand respect from the president, then each time
Donald Trump speaks, or any time his name is mentioned, massive calls need to
go to the news outlets demanding that they refuse to give him media time.
Grow up Donald Trump, and if you can't behave like a president, then at least
shut your mealy mouth.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/8/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
330,000+ Sign Petition Calling on White House Press Corps to 'Stand Up
and Fight Back' After Acosta Blacklisted "The rest of the White House
Press Corps will line up in solidarity-and either refuse to
participate in White House press events or only ask questions on
behalf of the banned reporter/outlet until the ban is lifted."
by
Jon Queally, staff writer
CNN's Jim Acosta reports ahead of White House Press Secretary Sean
Spicer's daily press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room
at the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip
Somodevilla/Getty
Images)
An online petition is surging towards its goal of 350,000 signatures
on Thursday as it called on members of the White House Press
Association to stand in solidarity against the Trump adminstration's
decision to strip credentials from CNN report Jim Acosta.
"In response to a man who treats his Presidency as if it's a series of
a particularly bizarre reality-TV show, the entire White House press
corps should walk out." -British journalist Jane MerrickPosted on
MoveOn.org's platform, but coordinated by the watchdog group Media
Matters for America, the petition reads:
If Trump blacklists or bans one of you, the rest of you need to stand up.
Instead of ignoring Trump's bad behavior and going about your
business, close ranks and stand up for journalism. Don't keep talking
about what Trump wants to talk about. Stand up and fight back. Amplify
your colleague's inquiry or refuse to engage until he removes that
person/outlet from the blacklist.
As of this writing, 333,046 had signed the petition and the number was
steadily increasing.
"The White House Press Correspondents Association exists to advance
the interests of and protective the White House Press Corps and right
now, they freedom of the press is in jeopardy. They need to act," said
Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, and author of
the petition. "Reporters need to make it a matter of policy that if
one of their members if blacklisted, that the rest of the White House
Press Corps will line up in solidarity-and either refuse to
participate in White House press events or only ask questions on
behalf of the banned reporter/outlet until the ban is lifted."
According to British political journalist Jane Merrick, in an op-ed
posted to CNN on Thursday:
Trump's decision to revoke Acosta's pass to the White House grounds is
an outrageous ramping up of his campaign against a questioning,
robust, and free media.
In response to a man who treats his Presidency as if it's a series of
a particularly bizarre reality-TV show, the entire White House press
corps should walk out. Deny him coverage. Take him off the air. Cancel
his series.
Leave him to rage into Twitter's echo chamber, which is all he deserves.
On Thursday morning, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders was under fire for retweeting a doctored video of the incident
with Acosta at Wednesday's press briefing.
In a rebuke to the Trump administration over the suspension of Acosta,
PEN America on Wednesday night called the decision a "clear attack on
the First Amendment."
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