‘I Didn’t Say The Media Is The Enemy, I Said The Fake Media” Trump Tells Breitbart

In his first official interview with Breitbart, the controversial site formerly run by his chief advisor Steve Bannon, President Trump clarified his hostile stance towards the mass media, explaining that what he actually opposes is media that spreads ‘fake news’, a term ironically coined by the conventional press to describe the “alt-right” media which fails to follow the conventional narrative. He also outlined some of the topics he’ll touch upon at his upcoming address to Congress.
‘I didn’t say the media is the enemy – I said the ‘fake media’,’ Trump told Breitbart in the exclusive interview on Monday according to the posted transcript.
‘There’s a difference. The fake media is the opposition party. The fake media is the enemy of the American people. There’s tremendous fake media out there. Tremendous fake stories. The problem is the people that aren’t involved in the story don’t know that.’ In recent attacks against the press, Trump has marked the New York Times as an example of ‘failing’ media that ‘writes lies,’ stressing that the outlet’s approval ratings are already in serious decline due to this stance.
Trump also stressed that competition is essential for the media to work properly, but did not comment specifically on the possible merger between AT&T and Time Warner, which if successful would unite a handful of news networks under one owner and which was criticized by Trump during pre-election days.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Feb 28, 2017.