The following article by Laura King was posted on the Los Angeles Times website December 24, 2017:
President Trump launched a Christmas Eve attack on FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, whom he accuses of favoritism toward his former opponent, Hillary Clinton, and also returned to a longtime favored theme, excoriating the news media for failing to sufficiently extol his accomplishments.
The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website September 16, 2017:
An amazing thing happened this week.
News outlets that President Trump has branded “fake news” reported Trump agreed in principle to grant long-term legal status to DACA recipients — a big item on Democrats’ wish list — without securing funding for a Southern border wall in return. Trump said the media and the Democrats who say they negotiated with him were mischaracterizing the situation. Continue reading “Trump’s ‘fake news’ attack lost its power this week”
The following article by Margaret Sullivan was posted on the Washington Post website August 23, 2017:
President Trump attacked the media, including the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post, during his rally in Phoenix on Aug. 22 “Fox has treated me fairly,” Trump said. “How good is Hannity? … And Fox & Friends in the morning is the best show.” (The Washington Post)
As with so much about President Trump, his Phoenix rally on Tuesday night was two contradictory things: both shocking and completely predictable. Continue reading “Trump’s vicious attack on the media shows one thing clearly: He’s running scared”
The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website August 7, 2017:
President Trump has repeatedly lashed out with insults to defend himself as the Russia investigation unfolds. Here are some of his go-to attacks. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
President Trump keeps calling the Russia investigation ‘fake news.’ But with each passing week, the independent investigation into Trump’s campaign ties to Russia is getting more real, not less.
Here’s how: Continue reading “‘Fake news’? The Russia investigation is getting very, very real.”
The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website May 29, 2017:
To believe Donald Trump, you must believe two largely contradictory things.
You must believe that there are a slew of leakers in the executive branch who are providing damning details to the press illegally, and who must be rooted out and punished. (See tweets here, here, here, here and here.) Continue reading “The fake news is coming from inside the White House”
The following was posted on the TrumpAccountable.org website May 1, 2017:
In an interview posted today with CBS anchor John Dickerson, President Trump asserted again that President Obama ordered surveillance of Trump Tower before the election. Dickerson was asking about Trump’s relationship with Obama and Trump himself brought the unsubstantiated wiretapping claims up unprompted.
Here are the two most revealing and telling quotes from the conversation: Continue reading “Opinion vs. Fact”
The following commentary by the Editorial Board of the Star Tribune was posted on their website February 21, 2017:
Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press …
It’s all right there in the first 26 words of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: the foundation upon which this democracy is built. When President Trump declared the media the “enemy of the American people,” he took on an institution that has been part of the fabric of this country since before its birth. Continue reading “No, Mr. President, we’re not the enemy”
The All Generalizations are False website has developed a chart breaking down news media based on the quality of reporting (to help those who don’t read or follow news regularly determine what is unbiased, etc.). Here’s the latest version:
The following article by Kali Holloway was posted on the AlterNet website January 12, 2017:
Donald Trump tried to present himself as a paragon of journalistic virtue at Wednesday’s press conference, and if you were trapped in a bunker the last two years, from another planet, a frequent impulse buyer of bridges, or a Trump supporter, you might have believed him. Over the hour-long circus, Trump railed against the “very, very dishonest people” working in media, said he has “great respect for freedom of the press and all of that” and bemoaned fake news—seven times. “It’s a very sad thing,” Trump stated at one moment. “So, all I can ask for is honest reporters.” Continue reading “14 Fake News Stories Created or Publicized by Donald Trump”
