This is what george w. bush should have done with the news media. Instead he adopted a policy of never answering and rebutting any of the lies and phony stories put out about him by the liberal media. He allowed their lies to spread and fester. People like me that were on his side were left to hang in the wind as we tried to rebut whatever nonsense the left said about him. But found it very hard due to lack of needed info thanks to their closed mouth policy.
That's exactly right. That approach cost GWB his reputation and legacy as even conservatives now see him as a feckless lightweight who never should have been put in office.
Some here see Trump's aggressiveness as being "thin-skinned" but it's actually the opposite. He can take an enormous amount of abuse but he can also dish it out ten-fold.