Jim Acosta Quotes
I think aggressive, sometimes outspoken reporting from the White House briefing room is expected by the American people.
Acosta, Jim. The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America. Harper, 2019.
The George W. Bush Administration had initiated a secret wiretapping program without informing the Congressional Intelligence Committees as required by the statute or requesting a change in the law from the Judiciary Committee. New York Times, however, had discovered the program and published its existence. This was the way that Congress found out about the program that seemed to violate the law. The Attorney General however was critical of New York Times, and expressed concern that the press had published secret material.
The story had been placed by Republican dirty tricksters throughout the press. Reston, then the editor of the New York Times, was totally uninterested in whether or not the story was true. He, in contrast to some other NYT staff was not a JFK enthusiast in general. but saw such material as not news and certainly not “fit to print.”—the newspaper’s oldest journalistic standard He removed the reporter from the assignment but in such a climate, it is easy to see in retrospect why the JFK sex scandals were not covered by the press.
He was commenting on the new Donald Trump's attacks onthe media.
Abilio James Acosta is an American broadcaster, who is now an anchor and the chief domestic correspondent for CNN. Previously, Acosta served as the national political correspondent for CNN, as well as the network's chief White House correspondent during the Trump administration.
