Jim Acosta just can’t stop digging. But I guess he might be abiding by the Fourth Rule of Holes rather than the First right now. If your partner is digging a hole, don’t try to fill it in.

CNN's @Acosta has been working on a book for months. It's coming out June 11. Title: "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America." Here's my story… https://t.co/qsYFAdNeDT — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 24, 2019

Did you spit your coffee? Are you wiping your eyes? Stelter was actually tasked with writing the launch review on Jim’s book. I am chortling.

Especially since this week, we learned it is far more dangerous to be a 16-year-old boy in a MAGA hat that it is to be almost anyone else. Especially when journalists don’t do their job. To hear anyone from CNN telling about the difficulty of telling the truth after this week is just cringe-worthy.

When they completely failed to do little things. Like verifying the story of an activist with multiple complaints of being harassed by young white people who made bogus claims about his military service. Or watching an entire video. Before pouncing. Yes. They pounced.

Yet some PR firm thought, yup. Today’s the day. The same day a suspicious package was found at Covington Catholic. And the boys so needlessly and wrongfully maligned by the press, including CNN, have a hefty police presence at their school for their safety.

The same day Buzzfeed and Huffington Post lay off reporters and opinion writers. Is the legacy media so dense as to not see the trend? Trust and interest in the mainstream media are at an all-time low. Those of us engaged in the news cycle are looking to original content and new sources, like up and coming citizen journalists Andy Ngo, Sara Carter, and Tim Pool.

Timing is everything. And in this case it is good for a screaming fit of laughter if you watched even a fraction of the news in the last seven days.

But Jim wrote stuff. And the White House briefing room is a terrifying place. Allegedly. After all, it is full of young female staff that might try to take your microphone. Scary.

Acosta has received exactly one consequence for his boorish and juvenile behavior during press avails. A few days off. He also has his ridiculous behavior memorialized in a set of guidelines for he and all of his peers to abide by during press briefings. Oddly, every other professional in the room did not need to be told what they were.

Acosta’s full diary will be available June 11th, but you can pre-order it now. And before you wonder, no I did not. The single quote in this tweet had me howling so loud, I am afraid I would die in a fit of laughter reading the book:

CNN: @harperbooks says @Acosta will share "never-before-revealed stories of this White House's rejection of truth, while laying out the stakes for how Trump's hostility toward facts poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy.” https://t.co/dc2a2C05Jk via @brianstelter — Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) January 24, 2019



Okay, I have to stop. I can barely breathe. The book’s cover is “To Be Revealed”. Do you think it will be Jim in the mirror or in his life or death struggle with the aide who took the microphone?

The ratio on Brian’s tweet is already headed in a terrible direction. The need for media personalities to make themselves the story and play the victim is just unreal.

I just hope as the launch of the book continues, Jim and Brian remember the Third Rule of Holes. When you stop digging, you’re still in a hole.