What Jim Acosta is doing is exactly right

When Acosta and CNN were attacked by President Trump in November, CNN management was not cowed, but issued a statement, saying, “We stand behind Jim Acosta and his fellow journalists everywhere.”

It reminds me of the time when the Nixon White House attacked Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for their early Watergate reporting. The Washington Post’s great Executive Editor Ben Bradlee said rather laconically, “We stand by the boys. We stand by the boys.”

Jim Acosta and the other hardworking men and women who cover the White House will continue the effort to do their job. And the news organizations who send them there will continue to back them up.
I salute them and am proud to stand with them.