Expert: Acosta video distributed by White House was doctored

I'm a liberal partisan, so fwiw, but I don't think in a professional setting you ever try to wrestle something out of someone's hands. This is all uncharted territory in the White House press room, but when I've seen a similar situation in science conferences, they usually stand in front of the person who won't yield the mic and ask for it back until the mic gets cuts.

But the WH had to double down and say that JA "placing hands on" on the intern, which is close to a specific legal phrase related to assault and battery charges, unless they were saying he was: trying to find the intern, confirm her into his church, or provide faith healing services.

I agree Acosta hogs the mic a bit. And his questions are inarticulate and badgering. The two men interrupt each other. There's no decorum. Both sides are basically ridiculous and embarrassing, which is unfortunately par for the course these days. But if you're at the podium there are ways of handling this. You can simply stop answering questions until the guy realizes it's futile and yields the mic. If that takes a bit of time, then while it's happening you can articulately explain that everybody deserves a chance to speak, thereby demonstrating your sense of fairness and equity, and winning points with everyone. But Trump doesn't believe that (if he even thinks about it at all... I mean heck he's only the president, not someone who should be concerned with principles of governance, right?), and doesn't have the wherewithal. It's like apes jibber-jabbering.

That sounds shockingly respectful. I suppose the goal is to exchange information? In the US, the goal is now to stir the pot and get ratings.

It depends who the press is talking to, whether they generally agree, and therefore listen as students, or whether they generally disagree, and therefore act as being part of a debate.

We tend to prefer an adversarial relationship between the press and officials, evidence notwithstanding.

She looked very professional, went for the mic, did 3 attempts, and stood aside when pushed away by the journalist.

This time "doctored" issue is to distract people on what actually happened.

Journalist had asked his questions, and the President answered. He was, refusing to end his turn, being sensationalist and irrelevant.