August 14, 2018: Del Rio News-Herald * OPINION * Letters to the Editor * Wimpy, whiny, 'we-porters'

Letter to the Editor,

Wimpy, whiny “we-porters”

They are supposed to be reporters not porters, gatekeepers keeping us out from learning what is really going on and only telling us what they want us to know, only their side of the story, only their take, only what’s on their agenda.

News flash, it’s not all about the reporters, it should be all about those they are reporting about. Next news flash, reporters are not the news; reporters should only report the news.

Lately the news has been all about them.  If people don’t like them, they get their feelings hurt.  They are the center of their universe and they want the public to adulate and applaud them. Silly people selling lies are what the newscasters have become.

Fellow journalists are calling out the clowns to stop drawing attention to their antics. This is for Jim Acosta of CNN who said he felt sad because he was heckled. Wah, wah, wah. Poor Jim Acosta.

Dave Shuster, managing editor for i24NEWS, tweeted, “Hey Jim @acosta, the job of a true journalist is not to be sad or happy by what happens in a press briefing room. It is to ask questions and report facts about what was said/not said.  Your feelings, antics, + self promotion are hurting journalism, not helping it. Enough.”

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked, “What’s more difficult: Dealing with your children on an onerous day or dealing with CNN reporter Jim Acosta?”

As a mother to three children under 6 years, she says that difficult motherhood days are similar to dealing with CNN’s Jim Acosta, “Both of them whine pretty regularly. They both like to ask the same questions and sometimes their tone needs to be adjusted a little bit. 

So I think that having kids has prepared me for the job that I have right now. In all seriousness, I think that having kids is great preparation for anything – especially a job you need patience for and they have certainly prepared me for this one.”

Acosta – whiner. Sanders – winner.

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

Del Rio, Texas