{"id":384270,"date":"2018-11-08T19:19:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/330000-sign-petition-calling-on-white-house-press-corps-to-stand-up-and-fight-back-after-acosta-blacklisted\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T19:19:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:19:59","slug":"330000-sign-petition-calling-on-white-house-press-corps-to-stand-up-and-fight-back-after-acosta-blacklisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/330000-sign-petition-calling-on-white-house-press-corps-to-stand-up-and-fight-back-after-acosta-blacklisted\/","title":{"rendered":"330,000+ Sign Petition Calling on White House Press Corps to &#8216;Stand Up and Fight Back&#8217; After Acosta Blacklisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>With the firing of racist elf Jeff Sessions, it&#8217;s hard to keep up with our Constitutional unraveling. But key among the day&#8217;s horrors was the spectacle of our babbling, vengeful wannabe tinpot abusing reporters before having a toady try to wrestle a mic from CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta &#8211; who then found himself banned from his job. Beware: The clown is now a cornered dog who won&#8217;t stop anytime soon. Given the dangers ahead, we call on Thomas Jefferson: &#8220;The only security of all is in a free press.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/11\/08\/330000-sign-petition-calling-white-house-press-corps-stand-and-fight-back-after?cd-origin=rss\">Common Dreams<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the firing of racist elf Jeff Sessions, it&#8217;s hard to keep up with our Constitutional unraveling. But key among the day&#8217;s horrors was the spectacle of our babbling, vengeful wannabe tinpot abusing reporters before having a toady try to wrestle a mic from CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta &#8211; who then found himself banned from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}