Nearly 50% of Americans polled, think that the media is fabricating news about our president.
We're NOT talking about slant/bias/context error - we're talking about making $hit up. People think that the media is actually making stuff up about tweety.
Fabrication. Something wholly untrue. Nearly 50%! I'd like to know where they see that. I'd like to see a wholly made up story about our "dear" leader.
Did the media make up his tweets? Did they fabricate his voice saying "grab them by the pu$$y"? Did they fabricate his poll numbers? Did they fabricate the election results? Did they fabricate that he will never make his taxes public?
Remember, we're talking fabrication, NOT commentary. AND, we're talking about the media, NOT entertainers.
Commentary is no different than what tweety himself did to Obama with the birther issue - or any number of repubs saying he's a Muslim. Yeah, the media reported the accusations, and hanity and the like commented on it, but it was never substantiated or endorsed by the media.
Fabrication is a whole different ballgame. This country has to pull its head out of its rear end and look at EVERYTHING with a clear head. The fact that we have a moron in office who can't stop tweeting and pointing the spotlight at himself is killing us. Whenever he gets criticized, he calls "fake news". But it's not fake - it's just news he doesn't like.
Real fake news would reporting that he doesn't tweet too much or that he never bankrupted more than one casino...
Further, a scary amount of those polled think it's OK for an administration to pull licenses of networks that they deem as "liars".
This is a dark, scary path.
Back to the topic, the media's partisanship and outright lies is chiefly responsible for Trump's victory. He was the recipient of decades long abuses of The 4th Estate. In retrospect, his's election or someone like him, was inevitable. The media galvanized support behind Trump in part as a metaphorical middle finger to the press. Mitt Romney or John McCain could have won, but they played the game and tried to treat the press with the respect they didn't deserve. Trump treated them exactly as they deserved.
See the link below and if you're courageous, watch the video of her speech.