Charleston Gazette-Mail President Donald Trump is no fan of the news media. Or at least of many of the nation’s most long-respected and widely read and watched news organizations. “So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN,” the president tweeted in June of this year, claiming that[Read More…]

Charleston Gazette-Mail In recent days, West Virginians have gotten an up-close look at how Gov. Jim Justice handles news he doesn’t like. The short answer is, not well. Justice accuses the news media, some more than others, of not being “positive” enough, while he calls a story “negative” if it[Read More…]

The Herald-Dispatch During his campaign for the presidency and his tenure in office, Donald Trump has routinely portrayed the press as disseminating “fake news” and as an “enemy of the American people.” Handy catchphrases, the type he has regularly deployed on his way to vanquishing his political opponents and to[Read More…]

The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Donald Trump began very early in his presidency to hit the accelerator on use of the term “fake news” in what, at the time, seemed a battle with major national media outlets. He has not let up; and the ripple effects go far beyond the[Read More…]

The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register It was less than a month into his term when President Donald Trump ramped up his “fake news” battle with several big national media outlets, referring to them at that time as the “enemy of the people.” The rhetoric continues 18 months later as the[Read More…]

The Journal Fake news” has been a staple of President Donald Trump’s campaign and subsequent time in the White House, and his use of that and similar terms to ostracize the media has increased recently. Now, he and members of his administration have gone so far as to brand the[Read More…]