{"id":28182,"date":"2018-02-18T04:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T04:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28182"},"modified":"2018-02-18T04:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T04:05:35","slug":"fake-news-gets-trump-scorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28182","title":{"rendered":"‘Fake news’ gets more Trump scorn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have become immune to the outrage of Donald Trump’s Twitter fetish, so I won’t gripe that the president is tweeting<\/em> his outrage yet again.<\/p>\n

However, his continuing outrage at what he keeps calling the “fake media” is outrageous in the extreme.<\/p>\n

The president went after <\/a>the media’s coverage of Robert Mueller’s indictments of 13 Russians and three Russian companies over their alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

C’mon, Mr. President! They’re doing their job. The media are part of the very system to which you belong!<\/p>\n

They have a responsibility to report on what the special counsel is doing to discover all the facts surrounding the election, the Russian interference in our electoral process and whether there was any “collusion” between the Russians and the president’s campaign.<\/p>\n

As for Trump’s criticism of the media reporting of the indictments, I hasten to add that the media have reported quite clearly that the indictments do not suggest<\/em> there was collusion. To that end, the media have treated the president fairly — which means they have passed the second test of good journalism.<\/p>\n

The first test is accuracy. On this matter, the media have done well, too.<\/p>\n

So, Mr. President, shut up<\/em> with the “fake news” mantra.<\/p>\n\n

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I have become immune to the outrage of Donald Trump’s Twitter fetish, so I won’t gripe that the president is tweeting his outrage yet again. However, his continuing outrage at what he keeps calling the “fake media” is outrageous in the extreme. The president went after the media’s coverage of Robert Mueller’s indictments of 13 … Continue reading ‘Fake news’ gets more Trump scorn<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,6712,3983,7093,4932],"class_list":["post-28182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28184,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions\/28184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}