White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories | US news
The White House launched a new section on its official website on Friday that publicly criticizes and lists media organizations and journalists it says have distorted media coverage.
At the top of the page, the text reads: “Deceptive. Biased. Exposed.” The article calls the Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent “delinquent media outlets of the week,” accusing them of misrepresenting Trump’s remarks about six Democratic lawmakers who released a video encouraging members of the military not to follow illegal orders.
The controversy arose after Trump accused Democrats of “seditious behavior, punishable by death” on social media. He also reposted a statement including the words: “hang them.”
According to the site, “Democrats and the fake media have subversively implied that President Trump issued illegal orders to the military. Every order issued by President Trump was legal. It is dangerous for sitting members of Congress to incite insubordination in the U.S. military, and President Trump has called for them to be held accountable.”
The online page also features an “Offender Hall of Shame,” which includes the Washington Post, CBS News, CNN and MSNBC (now known as MS Now). Visitors can browse a searchable database of articles, along with the names of the journalists who wrote them. Each story is filed under labels like “bias,” “malpractice,” or “left-wing lunacy.”
One ranking currently lists the Washington Post as the top offender, with MSNBC and CBS News in second and third place.
Among the Washington Post articles cited was a report from earlier this month that the U.S. Coast Guard would stop classifying swastikas and nooses as symbols of hate, a decision the Coast Guard reversed after the article was published.
The Post acknowledged this rapid turnaround in a follow-up article. In its coverage of the new tracker, the newspaper cited an internal spokesperson who said: “The Washington Post prides itself on its accurate and rigorous journalism. »
Beyond those designated as weekly offenders, the White House page also cites the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Politico and Axios among the long list of media outlets it accuses of bias or misinformation.
The launch of this web page marks the latest escalation in Trump’s long-running attacks on the media. This follows lawsuits against the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, legal settlements with ABC and CBS, and his repeated references to major media outlets as “the enemy of the people.”
In recent weeks, Trump has also stepped up his personal attacks against female journalists. Earlier this month, he called a Bloomberg News correspondent a “pig” during a confrontation aboard Air Force One after the president was asked about the Epstein files.
A few days later, after being asked by an ABC News correspondent about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the Epstein scandal, Trump responded by calling the journalist a “terrible person.”
Last week, in an article for Truth Social, Trump called a New York Times correspondent “a third-rate journalist who is ugly, both inside and out,” following an article she co-wrote that suggested the president was lacking energy in his 80th year.
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