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riversedge

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Wed May 9, 2018, 01:05 PM May 2018

Trump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage



Trump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/09/trump-makes-it-explicit-negative-coverage-of-him-is-fake-coverage/?utm_term=.2d11f1124afe
by Philip Bump May 9 at 9:17 AM

A generous interpretation of President Trump’s views on “fake” news is that he believes that media outlets are overly quick to be critical of his decisions and his administration. In other words, he applies an overly broad term to a perceived phenomenon for which there can at least be an argument made.


There’s no evidence that this is the boundary that Trump observes, of course. We often consider Trump’s actions as president through the lens of what presidents do instead of the lens of what Trump does. A president wouldn’t simply wave away negative coverage as phony, contrived or dangerous to the country. Trump would. He’s made this clear since he launched his campaign, lashing out against news outlets that covered him critically, including barring them from his events. And he just made it explicitly clear.

Finding the balance between what Trump does and what a traditional president does is where media outlets can fall into the trap outlined in that first paragraph. Sometimes Trump does normal-president things, but they’re perceived negatively because it’s Trump doing them. In the case of his critiques of “fake news,” though, we’re pretty squarely in Trump territory as he illustrated in a tweet on Wednesday morning.

[Trump muses about yanking news media credentials in response to negative coverage]

He was spending his morning watching “Fox and Friends,” as he is wont to do, and up flashed a report from the Media Research Center stating that 91 percent of network news coverage of Trump from January through April was negative. The Media Research Center, we’ll note, is part of the conglomerate of conservative enterprises funded by Robert Mercer and his family, the folks that also funded Cambridge Analytica, Breitbart and former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon.........................................
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Trump makes it explicit: Negative coverage of him is fake coverage (Original Post) riversedge May 2018 OP
Trumplethinskin cannot handle the truth....... ProudMNDemocrat May 2018 #1
The only reality that matters is his own dalton99a May 2018 #2
they are prepping the Trump base Backwoodsrider May 2018 #3

ProudMNDemocrat

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1. Trumplethinskin cannot handle the truth.......
Wed May 9, 2018, 01:11 PM
May 2018


That he is, according to former SoS Rex Tillerson, "a FUCKING MORON!"

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