A left-leaning news publication published an article this week profiling CNN's Jim Acosta, suggesting that the White House correspondent has "lost the fight" and become a "performance journalist" rather than a real reporter.

The Atlantic published "Jim Acosta’s Dangerous Brand of Performance Journalism" on Tuesday, which accuses the professional provocateur of "amplifying the president’s anti-press campaign."

"Whenever a reporter who has not been kidnapped by terrorists, shot by an assailant, or won a big prize becomes an actor in her own story, she has lost the fight," The Atlantic's Todd Purdum wrote. "Or in this case, reinforced the corrosive, cynical, and deeply dangerous feedback loop that has convinced Trump’s most fervent supporters that his relentless brief against the press has merit: FAKE NEWS! SAD!"

Purdue noted that the White House press briefings have become "a circus of reportorial self-expression" and "self-promotion," things that Acosta has seemingly built his personal brand on.

The profile specifically references a recent exchange between Acosta and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders in which Acosta asked Sanders if she thought the press was an enemy of the American people. https://www.dailywire.com/news/34248/left-wing-publication-cnns-jim-acosta-dangerous-ryan-saavedra …