Journalists: Jim Acosta and Work

journalists: There are two reasons this is true, according to MSNBC. First, it's repulsive to see pompous, self-important people like Jim Acosta put themselves in the same boat as genuine journalists who are actually being killed and tortured for their work, and who are not merely the target of the president's 50-caliber Twitter gun. Professor, Media Ethics and Law, NYUshare on facebook tweet this show comments Share Print Reddit Share Share Article via Email To Your first name Message Send Whats AppThe national press is rightly often criticized for acting like babies in overreaction to the president's fake news mantra and his labeling the press the enemy of the people. Sticks and stones, Jimmy. ; Secondly, although too few journalists and media critics will admit it publicly, the press, in general, has done a fine job on its own of alienating millions of readers by consistently publishing nontrivial errors, knowing falsehoods, hiding corrections and retractions, and most importantly, introducing bias into what is allegedly the truth-telling business. Opinions can be based on accurate facts, but the opinion itself is not a fact. Memo to MSNBC and Fox partisan viewers and readers insist on calling opinions true or false because they agree with the analysis. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.