Frank wrote on Nov 16
th, 2018 at 8:13pm:
Dnarever wrote on Nov 16
th, 2018 at 7:03pm:
Trump deliberately started a war with sections of the media in order to undermine them printing and telling the truth in the lead up to the election.
Show us you actually understand what you are saying - give us an example. Don't ignore or distort the misrepresentations and lies by the 'fake media'.
Trump has a very good point. The Clintonesque media - and here it;s the ABC , Granuiad, Fairfax - misrepresent and slant every news report about Trump. They are propagandists, not news reporters. That's what fake 'news' is about.
It is NOT about partisan opinion. You can have all sorts of partisan opinion as long as you say upfront what your partisanship is. But you cannot pretend to be a 'news' organisation and be a partisan opinion outlet.
The fake news claims from Trump came in the final weeks of the campaign and in response to Trumps released take bragging about his various sexual assaults.
Most of the media at that point started reporting these things and came to the correct position that their was a candidate who lacked to morals to be a President.
Trump was finished at that point but he went onto full attack mode against Clinton and the media.
Everything he didn't want reported was fake news:
Russian meetings in Trump Tower - fake news.
His own sexual assault claims - fake news.
Reports on the size of his inauguration crowd -fake news.
Flynn's pre-inaugural conversations with the Russian - Fake news
The firing of FBI Director James Comey - Fake news.
All these fake news stories had one thing in common - they were all true as were many more.