President Donald Trump blasted the mainstream media on Friday, saying that “fake news” corporations are “enemies of the American people.” In a scathing tweet, Trump branded The New York Times, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News as “fake news” and criticized them as being the “enemy of the American people”. The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People! — Donald J.
CNN has been unceremoniously kicked out of Venezuela following a fake news report about President Maduro allegedly selling passports to terrorists in the Middle East. According to the Venezuelan government, CNN deliberately tried to bring down the government in Venezuela, taking advantage of the economic instability and heightened political tension in the country.
YouTube star PewDiePie has accused the mainstream media of attacking independent media outlets due to the fact that the public, en masse, are turning away from old school media. The Swedish comedian – who has a YouTube channel with over 53 million subscribers – recently came under fire and was accused of being “anti-semitic” and a “nazi” after he came out in support of President Trump.
As the war between the Trump administration and the "fake news" media rages on, after seemingly escalating in recent weeks, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, allegedly met with a senior Time Warner executive recently to express the administration’s deep concerns about CNN’s news coverage, according to anonymous sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.
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