The fake news business is playing into Trump's strong suit
Victor Davis Hanson:
They just can't seem to help themselves. There are just some things they want so much to be true that they are willing to take unverified whispers from "trusted sources" without verifications. Some of the sources look like part of a Democrat misinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the administration and it supporters.
The most effective way for the media to have refuted Donald Trump’s 24/7 accusations of “fake news” would have been to publish disinterested, factually based accounts of his presidency. The Trump record should have been set straight through logic and evidence.There is more.
So one would think after a year of disseminating fake news aimed at Donald Trump (Melania Trump was leaving the White House; Donald Trump had removed the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the West Wing; Trump planned to send troops into Mexico, etc.) that Washington and New York journalists would be especially scrupulous in their reporting to avoid substantiating one of Trump’s favorite refrains.
Instead, either blinded by real hatred or hyper-partisanship or both, much of the media has redoubled their reporting of rumor and fictions as facts—at least if they empower preconceived and useful bias against Trump. But after the year-long tit-for-tat with the president, the media has earned less public support in polls than has the president. It is the age-old nature of politicians of every stripe to exaggerate and mislead, but the duty of journalists to keep them honest—not to trump their yarns.
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They just can't seem to help themselves. There are just some things they want so much to be true that they are willing to take unverified whispers from "trusted sources" without verifications. Some of the sources look like part of a Democrat misinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the administration and it supporters.
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