re: #17 The Madness of King Orange (aka Sophist)

What I want to know is, when will the Press stop reporting things the White House tells them as news, without first getting outside corroboration? How many times do they need to get burned to learn their lesson?

Fail on the basic fact checking.

Breaking News: Aircraft carrier wasn’t sailing to deter North Korea, as U.S. suggested https://t.co/728xm496H9

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 18, 2017

The movements of this aircraft carrier triggered *hundreds* of news stories/segments/TV discussions https://t.co/or51jAQH04

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 18, 2017