Larry O’Connor penned an opinion piece at The Washington Times. An excerpt of his latest article, Why media companies should take Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ very seriously, is below:

President Trump announced his long-anticipated “Fake News Awards” Wednesday night. In a tweet with a link to the Republican National Committee’s webpage, the president highlighted a series of false reports from mainstream news outlets during the first year of his presidency.

And the FAKE NEWS winners are…https://t.co/59G6x2f7fD

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2018

The litany of incorrect reports included ABC News’ Dow-damaging, breathless report that then-candidate Trump had directed Gen. Michael Flynn to work with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign, the NY Times’ Paul Krugman predicting that Wall Street would “never” recover from Trump winning the White House (he’s one of their economic experts), CNN’s deceptively edited video alleging Trump overfed some fish in Japan (yeah, that was a real thing) and, sadly, many more now-redacted and corrected stories.

Most media outlets ignored or mocked the damaging list of false reports. Or, they employed the tactic of pointing out falsehoods perpetuated by the Trump White House over the past year. Apparently “Whataboutism” is an appropriate and legitimate debating tactic if one is defending the media and attacking Trump. Good to know. [Read More]

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