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US President-elect Donald Trump says Buzzfeed and CNN are “fake news” outlets, calling them “terrible” and “garbage” respectively. On Wednesday during a press conference at the Trump Tower NYC, the president-elect confirmed what many journalists, citizens, and fact-checkers have long suspected; that CNN is fake news. Trump told a pleading Jim Acosta from CNN: “I’m not going to give you a question, you are fake news.” Sputnik reports: “I’m not going to give you a question.

In his first press conference since July, Donald Trump slammed specific news outlets for publishing fake news reports claiming among other things that he was being blackmailed by Russia who obtained compromising video of him with prostitutes.

Fake News at the New York Times

Just minutes after Trump slammed CNN's reporter Jim Acosta, calling CNN "fake news", just after slamming Buzzfeed as a "failing pile of garbage", CNN issued a statement in response to Trump's attack, which effectively boils down to "we are not Buzzfeed" yet even though CNN said it did not publish the memo "because we have not corroborated the report's allegations" it still used it to create a front-page, uncorroborated "report."

Full CNN statement"

In a fascinating retort by the left-leaning NYT to the story of the day, namely the CNN-BuzzFeed narrative based on an unverified 35-page memo allegedly prepared by a UK intelligence officer, even "the paper of record" takes the two media outlets to town, and in an article titled "BuzzFeed Posts Unverified Claims on Trump, Stirring Debate" essentially accuses them of doing what CNN has accused so much of the 'alternative media' in doing when distributing "fake news."

Here are the key excerpts: