the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Washington DC, the gloves are officially off between the Trump administration and the mainstream press. The White House has taken the extraordinary step of launching a new page on its official website dedicated to correcting and calling out what it labels “fake news” and “biased reporting.”
Continue reading White House Launches ‘Media Bias’ Page: CNN, WaPo, MSNBC Named in ‘Hall of Shame’
He’s not unprecedented. He’s not going to change. And 11 other lessons the media still haven’t learned about the president.
By POLITICO MAGAZINE
May/June 2017
There was lots of hand-wringing after the election about how the media had messed up. Were we too quick to believe the polls? Did we have any idea what real Americans actually thought? Did we give Donald Trump too much attention—or not enough? Now that journalists have spent a few months covering President Trump, we asked a range of media critics, political operatives, historians and more: What does the press still get wrong about Trump, and what do we just not get at all?
