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President's 'Fake News' Campaign Is Working, Albeit Mostly Among His Supporters


He began his presidency by declaring war on the U.S. news media and spent the first three years of his time in office labeling America's top journalists "fake news," and the President's tactics appear to have worked, at least as far as Republican voters are concerned. That's the finding of …
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  1. Douglas Ferguson from College of Charleston, December 13, 2019 at 9:09 a.m.

    Trump's so-called declared war on mainstream media news was preceded a few months in 2016 by a new lynch mob kind of journalism, spurred by an angry Left. The results were not pretty in 2017, when public editor Liz Spayd was fired by the New York Times for being insufficiently anti-Trump.  https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/new-york-times-public-editor-liz-spayd-fired-media-bias/

  2. John Grono from GAP Research, December 13, 2019 at 4:10 p.m.

    My confidence in journalists remains high.

    My confidence in media commentators and media owners, not so much.

  3. Craig Mcdaniel from Sweepstakes Today LLC, December 13, 2019 at 7:47 p.m.

    I remember nearly every hour of the day after Trump was elected, MSNBC and CNN telling their audience that Trump was a Russian agent of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. This turned out this week to be false.  Trump earn the right to call members of the press "fake". 


  4. Craig Mcdaniel from Sweepstakes Today LLC, December 13, 2019 at 8:04 p.m.

    Joe, one very real comparison that you can related too. I receive every week of the "fake" scham sweepstakes send to me to publish. For 16 years, I go through the emails glance at them to see who they are from. Most get spammed right off the bat. Some get research for theirvalidation. Last the real ones like Ford Motor Co. and many Fortune companies will get a return email from me.

    The point here is while most in the media publish wouldn't consider my publishing sweepstakes and contest as entertainment, I check and validate who is real and who is fake.

    Most of the "Fake News" as described didn't validate the Russian story and what they did check to see what was real and what was not. 

    Trump was the messenger of what he knew that was fake news. 



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