Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who helped bring down President Nixon, criticized CNN for filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration and charged that too many reporters in the mainstream media “have become emotionally unhinged.” (Fox News)
Speaking at the Global Financial Leadership Conference in Naples, Florida, Woodward said “the remedy [isn’t suing the administration]. … It’s more serious reporting about what he’s doing.” NBC reporter Dylan Byers first flagged Woodward’s comments.
CNN filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday demanding that the White House restore the press credential of star reporter Jim Acosta. The administration suspended Acosta’s “hard pass,” which provided expedited access to the White House grounds, after he broke protocol by refusing to surrender his microphone during a press conference last week.
Acosta continued to pepper Trump with a barrage of declarative statements and questions — at times talking over Trump — until the president stepped away from the podium, even though reporters are typically afforded just one follow-up.
“In the news media there has been an emotional reaction to Trump,” Woodward said. “Too many people for Trump or against Trump have become emotionally unhinged about this.”
Woodward further added that CNN took Trump’s “bait” by pursuing a federal case.
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