MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Friday [11-9-18] that he might revoke the credentials of additional White House reporters if they did not ‘treat the White House with respect,’ lobbing another threat at the news media two days after his administration effectively blacklisted the CNN correspondent Jim Acosta…The removal of Mr. Acosta’s credential, after a tense news conference on Wednesday [11-7-18] when the CNN correspondent aggressively questioned Mr. Trump, has raised alarms among press freedom groups that say the president is encroaching on journalists’ basic right to cover the government. Aides to Mr. Trump said that he was most bothered by reporters who, in his view, spoke to him in a belligerent manner, and that his willingness to take questions — he did so for about 25 minutes on Friday — made him more open to scrutiny than past presidents. But Mr. Trump’s retaliation against Mr. Acosta, buttressed by a false claim that the correspondent had handled a female White House intern roughly during the news conference on Wednesday, has little precedent in the modern White House.”
–Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Threatens to Retaliate Against Reporters Who Don’t Show ‘Respect’,” The New York Times online, November 9, 2018