Press should have walked out after CNN'S Acosta was dissed [View all]

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http://www.smh.com.au/world/donald-trumps-media-conference-degenerates-into-name-calling-20170111-gtpx44.html

"I'm not going to give you a question," Trump snarled. "I'm not going to give you a question – you are fake news."

At which point it would be nice to report that the rest of the reporters shut off their recorders and refused to ask questions. Alas, they didn't miss a beat – all pressed on, yelling to draw Trump's attention to themselves, and seemingly oblivious that if CNN is being frozen out this week, it might be any or all of the rest them next week.

After 58 minutes, Trump rounded up his family and his paid staff who he had brought along to cheer and jeer, lest he get boxed in by the tenor of questions or by awkward silences; and the media slunk away.

But social media erupted.

"Trump shouted down CNN Jim Acosta as 'fake news' then took a question from Breitbart."
"At that point the reporters should have left, turn the cameras off and leave."
Alluding to Trump's claim that he was so popular he could shoot someone on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and get away with it, another post said: "Trump just shot Jim Acosta on the middle of Fifth Avenue and the press didn't blink."

"The rest of the news people should have given the floor to Acosta, they were just as bad as trump in that regard. Shame!"
"First they came for CNN…and I did not speak."
"When trump tells Acosta to be quiet where is the outrage from the other journalists in the room? In one voice: "ANSWER THE QUESTION!"
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