Some are already beefing about them. Blame Acosta. He can’t act like an adult, so everyone has to be treated like children.
Via Newsbusters:
On Monday afternoon, the White House released a series of brief but simple guidelines for journalists in light of CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s carnival-barking at not only press conferences with the President, but a pattern of bombastic, self-centered behavior that resulted in a ten-day legal standoff that began on November 7.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sent out the guidelines concerning the parameters of one initial question and, if granted permission by the President or whoever is speaking, a followup question before yielding to other reporters.
Sanders began with the admission that they had “notified Jim Acosta and CNN that his hard pass has been restored,” but provided the caveat that he was also informed that there will be “certain rules” implemented “with a degree of regret” to “govern White House press conferences going forward.”
Here are the four points in their totality:
“A journalist called upon to ask a question will ask a single question and then will yield the floor to other journalists;
At the discretion of the President or other White House official taking questions, a follow-up question or questions may be permitted; and where a follow up has been allowed and asked, the questioner will then yield the floor;
‘Yielding the floor’ includes, when applicable, physically surrendering the microphone to White House staff for use by the next questioner;
Failure to abide by any of rules (1)-(3) may result in suspension or revocation of the journalist’s hard pass.”