Stephen Lendman – Trump’s complaint about unprecedented media bias is justified. Campaigning he said “I’m not running against crooked Hillary. I’m running against the crooked media.”

As president, he criticized “dishonest media…fake news…publish(ing) one false story after another, with no sources, even though they pretend to have them.”

“They just don’t want to report the truth…They’re…part of the problem. (They’re) part of the corrupt system.”

A new Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy report, analyzing news coverage of his first 100 days, bears him out.

Analysis was based on NYT, WaPo, and WSJ broadsheet reports, plus ones from CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC, the BBC, Financial Times and Germany’s ARD. Continue reading →