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-- 2016 --
June 29: In covering a story, a media outlet is not finding guilt. It is simply reporting the news that [for example] a lawsuit has been filed against Mr. Trump, and ideally putting the complaint in context. Unproven allegations are just that - unproven, and should be identified that way. ... Proof comes later, at trial. But the November election will come well before any trial. And while Mr. Trump is presumed innocent, we are permitted — no, we are obligated — to analyze [a] case’s viability ....
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
-- 2017 --
May 12: Trump threatens to ax White House press briefings ... In his Friday morning tweetstorm, the president also suggested that his administration could do away with briefings for the press and instead give out written statements. ... @realDonaldTrump
...Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???
" ... with respect to the President's suggestion that as a very busy person, he doesn't have time to ensure that his spokespeople are accurately portraying his actions — it is difficult to know how to respond — except to say, being truthful with the American people is a core responsibility of the job," Schiff [House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam] said. "If he did not want to willingly undertake even the minimal requirements of the Presidency, it would have been far better for him to have considered that before he chose to run for the highest office in the land."
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/528104260/trump-tweet-suggests-his-conversations-with-comey-might-have-been-recorded
May 21: [Secretary of State Rex] Tillerson held the press conference with the Saudi foreign minister, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, but it appeared that only foreign reporters were present. Journalists from the United States were left scrambling to figure out what happened.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/21/media/saudi-arabia-tillerson-press-conference/index.html
May 29: "It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media," Trump tweeted ....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/29/politics/trump-hasnt-changed-neither-has-washington/index.html
October 13: Donald Trump Thinks the Freedom of the Press Is ‘Disgusting’
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/freedom-press/donald-trump-thinks-freedom-press-disgusting
October 20: Fox News host Chris Wallace leveled sharp criticism in an article ... against some of his colleagues who have echoed President Trump and used their perch at the network to attack the media as "fake news."
"If they want to say they like Trump, or that they're upset with the Democrats, that's fine," Wallace continued. "That's opinion. That's what they do for a living."
The comments from Wallace, who hosts "Fox News Sunday" and is widely considered to be one of the main faces of the Fox News' hard news division, represent perhaps the most searing criticism the network's opinion division has faced in recent memory from a colleague.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/20/media/fox-news-chris-wallace-attacks-media/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
October 20: It's quite common to hear opinion hosts [like Sean Hannity], who dominate Fox News' prime time lineup, routinely trash news reports critical of Trump and, more broadly, the mainstream media as a whole [comprising hard news].
Hannity, who is the highest-profile personality most guilty of this, has devoted large swaths of his show over the past year to delegitimizing the media at large. He regularly focuses his opening monologue on assailing the press.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/20/media/fox-news-chris-wallace-attacks-media/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
-- 2018 --
August 16: Trump rips media after hundreds of papers denounce press attacks
https://nypost.com/2018/08/16/trump-slams-media-as-opposition-party-while-papers-defend-free-press/
August 16: The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution affirming support for a free press and declaring that “the press is not the enemy of the people.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-media-trump/senate-adopts-resolution-backing-free-press-after-trump-attacks-idUSKBN1L1270
August 16: Trump's 'dirty war' on media draws editorials in 300 US outlets
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45204397
September 25: General Motors has built one of the most exclusive, impenetrable and expensive cars in the world to transport the most important person in the free world.
The Secret Service will give up a little info, but the company won't talk about it.
"We cannot comment on this," Cadillac spokesman Andrew Lipman wrote in an email.
So what's the big secret? It's President Donald Trump's new limousine that Cadillac built, called "The Beast."
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/09/25/gm-cadillac-limo-donald-trump/1415805002/
October 25: Fox News’ Chris Wallace condemns Trump’s anti-media rhetoric when given free speech award
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/fox-news-chris-wallace-condemns-trumps-anti-media-rhetoric-when-given-free-speech-award
-- 2019 --
-- 2020 --
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