Adam Johnson: All the fake news that’s fit to print
The Dig · Daniel Denvir, from Jacobin magazine.
May 2, 2017Explicit
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Show Notes
The media has become a part of the story like perhaps never before. Journalist probing has irritated our touchy president. But media outlets have also played a role in Trump’s rise. During the campaign, cable news outlets provided him with wall-to-wall free advertising and, more recently, lauded Trump as “presidential” because he decided to attack Syria. Adam Johnson, a writer at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, breaks it down.