Jim Acosta of CNN is sad. No one at the Trump rallies seems to like him or his network. And when they yell at him during a live shot, it hurts him right in the FEEEEEEEEELINGS.

You see, the people at the Trump rally decided to crash his live shot by yelling at him.

.@Acosta is trying to do a stand-up at #trumptampa and the crowd is booing and chanting “CNN sucks” behind him. pic.twitter.com/XiULajB1Li

— Emily L. Mahoney (@mahoneysthename) July 31, 2018

And that makes him sad. Or maybe SAD!

Oh, Jim. You mean you weren’t in your bubble version of America anymore, where your preferred politician is in power and the rallies are all friendly to you. Meaning the Obama years.

One of the surprising things I heard tonight in Tampa is Trump supporters saying I should be on their team. Anybody remember when we were all on the same team? I do.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 1, 2018

Sure, if "we" refers to journalists and "team" means Obama's side. https://t.co/NilVKtUjEU

— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) August 1, 2018

Come. On. https://t.co/LmLFIDQnLK

— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) August 1, 2018

So Acosta went to the White House today, to whine to someone he’s already complained about – Press Secretary Sarah Sanders – to get her to validate his feelings.

Sarah, being a mom who can recognize a whine at 20 paces, was having none of it.

Heated exchange between Sarah Huckabee Sanders and @Acosta during Thursday's White House press briefing pic.twitter.com/EyBdG0UmV5

— Mashable News (@MashableNews) August 2, 2018

.@Acosta asks @PressSec to state clearly that she does not believe the press is "the enemy of the people."

She does not. Instead, airing or more grievances: "repeatedly the media resorts to personal attacks," Sanders says.

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) August 2, 2018

Sarah Sanders just “appreciate your passion’d” Acosta.

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 2, 2018

And then poor Jim took to Twitter to pour out his woes.

I walked out of the end of that briefing because I am totally saddened by what just happened. Sarah Sanders was repeatedly given a chance to say the press is not the enemy and she wouldn't do it. Shameful.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 2, 2018

"I'm tired of this," @Acosta says. "It is not right" to call the press the "enemy of the people." Watch this clip. pic.twitter.com/rcqB5FiSCy

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 2, 2018

But let’s hold on just a minute…

And now another Press briefing where no one will remember a thing that was asked or answered but everyone will be talking about Jim Acosta. Weird right?

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 2, 2018

If you're a reporter trying to get on the record quotes about election interference and steps this WH is taking or not taking to ensure midterm security from Coates, etc.. how pissed are you that now it's simply the Jim Acosta show?

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 2, 2018

Yes, this just happened: @acosta just said seriously that journalists should chant in front of the White House "we are not the enemy of the American people" and no, we do not live in serious times

— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) August 2, 2018

Jim Acosta rn pic.twitter.com/ma3PZn7Zwa

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 2, 2018

And here we have the crux of the problem.

There's a reason Acosta, a white house reporter, goes to these rallies. He's part of the show too, he knows it, CNN knows it, it's all a ratings show.

— Gianbattista (@dw2415) August 1, 2018

The best thing is that no matter how much Acosta tries to make himself a heroic martyr for journalism, CNN won't give him his own show, they just send him to another rally to get shit on LMAO

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) August 1, 2018

Congratulations, Jim Acosta. You have failed the FIRST rule of journalism school: YOU are not the story. Do not make yourself the story.

As a result, you have become the least effective journalist covering the White House and the president – which actually need and deserve serious coverage – by turning it into the Jim Acosta Show (total hat tip and theft from Stephen Miller acknowledged). The story is not the rally – it’s how people reacted to you at the rally. The story is not the daily presser at the White House – it’s how the Press Secretary didn’t validate YOU.

The first thing that got hammered into me by my first very old-school journalism professor was that when reporting on a story, the reporter does not exist. News stories are to be written the way that Sgt. Joe Friday used to interview witnesses on “Dragnet” – “Just the facts.” We would be dinged if we used an adjective that even remotely betrayed an opinion.

And I just checked, Jim – you’re older than I am. We both got similar degrees at public universities. Are you telling me that I got a better education than you did? Or have you just ignored every lesson that your j-school profs once told you? The facts are undeniable – you’re failing as a journalist and a reporter because you have made yourself – your reactions, your questions, your feelings, your video – the story.

And CNN is failing as a news source because they tolerate this. The story is no longer about anything else on their network except how much the president and his supporters loathe them. Oh, and Russia. So the network is no longer reliable or legitimate because they keep stoking the fires of how much the president dislikes them.

I once wrote about how the media needs to take a look at their practices and say, “Physician, heal thyself.” But it’s been made repeatedly clear by the Acostas in the press that they have zero interest in fixing themselves, because they are too invested in their narrative of “The Resistance” and mocking those they dislike – or worse.

Your network sent an employee to harass a random elderly woman in her driveway and accuse her of doing the work of a hostile foreign power because she shared something on Facebook. https://t.co/9MfIWmqCGW

— Big Pickle Energy (@sunnyright) August 1, 2018

Nothing is going to change because President Trump will not – and the press used to love it – and the media is refusing to. I hope everyone is enjoying the Jim Acosta Show of failed journalism, because this is now what we are stuck with.