Oh, it's worse than that. We have an Establishment Media that makes The Onion look sane in comparison. 
Posted on 02/17/2017 11:46:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On every new article featuring leaks about the White House, editors should place a disclaimer: Anonymous officials cited in this piece stopped short of justifying the havoc this story is about to create.
A flurry of would-be bombshell reports over the last week appeared to show more ties between President Trump and Russia or further demonstrate the supposed ineptitude of the Trump administration.
The stories depended entirely on anonymous "current and former U.S officials" who share a lot of tantalizing information then, strangely, clam up just as things are about to get good.
The news media spin every "leak" into an ominous warning. But once readers get through these stories they realize something's missing. Namely, a conclusion.
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that "U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised."
Not until nine paragraphs in did the report admit that their sources "know no instance in which crucial information about security threats or potential plotting has been" withheld from the White House....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Trump is baiting the LSM to self distruct?
We now have a tabloid press.
Oh, it's worse than that. We have an Establishment Media that makes The Onion look sane in comparison.
Trump is making the press look like a comic book instead of a newspaper.
Someone posted a screenshot from the NYT a few days ago showing an article full of speculations about all of the supposed collusion between President Trump and Russia, only to say in the second paragraph that there was no evidence.
How on earth is this responsible?
Perhaps the MSM, instead of whining that President Trump is dissing them, should engage in some serious introspection and figure out *why* the president is ignoring them and their approval ratings are so abysmal. Instead, they keep on pretending to be victims, going so far as to say the President is trying to overturn the First Amendment.
RUMBLINGS: ‘National Guard Fake Memo’ Was Ploy To Smoke Out The Leaker
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/02/reports-national-guard-fake-memo-ploy-smoke-leaker/
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