Posted on 01/17/2017 10:12:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It doesn’t feel good to have your reporting labeled “fake news” by the man who is about to become president of the United States.
Immediately following Donald Trump’s first press conference as president-elect last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper defended his cable-news network over charges that it had misled the public by reporting on the existence of an unverified document that U.S. intelligence officials had presented to both President-elect Trump and President Obama.
While BuzzFeed published a copy of the dossier, which contained details of compromising information that the Russians supposedly have on Trump, CNN did not. It was a distinction that Tapper made abundantly clear during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday.
As Tapper explained, the officials who briefed Trump “didn’t know if the information was real” but they “wanted him to know about it, that it was out there, because they thought it potentially affected national security.” He also gave Meyers credit for being the first to get a member of the Trump transition team on record when he confronted Kellyanne Conway about the allegations last week.
“You explained it great, you had all the details perfectly right,” Tapper told Meyers. “I wish I could say the same about everyone else who followed us in our reporting, but you were exactly on target.” Conway, of course, denied that Trump knew anything about it.
Speaking on behalf of CNN and his reporting, which Meyers said has been conflated with BuzzFeed’s, Tapper said he’s been “yelled at” by both presidents and press secretaries before. “But I’ve never seen the effort to delegitimize an organization for a story that you don’t like that has been proven,” he said, noting that “every word of the story that we reported last Tuesday has been proven correct.”
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CNN is scared poopless that Trump will not allow them a Whitehouse press pass. That is the Golden ticket in journalism.
Without, CNN is dead meat. It is already rotting meat, but it will be buried after this Friday.
Sorry Jake, I can’t hear you over Jimmy Acosta yelling at the President Elect.
CNN has a long history of supporting the left, they have NO credibility here. NONE.
CNN, and for that matter the media generally, should not expect business as usual. Trump is not going to beg them for attention or their affection. Second, Darwin is in play - the media will need to adapt to a POTUS that speaks DIRECTLY to the American people or not survive.
reagan dealing with the press.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41XLXlCqFH8
Essentially a mic drop
another favorite is the “I PAID FOR THIS MIC” moment that destroyed Bushes campain in NH
When he was in the WH Press Corpse, I thought he was one of the only ones who occasionally tried to hold the Obama Admin accountable for some things. I was sooooo disappointed when he became just another Dem political hack after he went to CNN.
Trumphurt Butt Salve. Apply twice daily until soreness is gone.
Jake...everythings not Jake
Trump has turned the focus of the conversation 180 degrees. The Control-LEFT media cannot handle looking in a mirror.
The Gipper used the newer TV media to bypass the old print media. Trump bypasses all the old media by using the Internet to communicate directly with the people. Just as importantly, both of these gentlemen are delivering the right message.
The name is actually Fake Tapper
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Fake Yapper
The day Reagan took down the newspaper moderator and Pappy Bush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflCPXrU4s0
How can a media fraud exposed by Wikileaks as a fake news monger “fire back” at Trump? Foolishness!
About the same as govt arguing that social workers should not be expected to know perjury is illegal.
Has Jake Tapper ever explained why CNN gave the debate questions to Hillary before the debates?
Did they really think Hillary was too stupid to be able to answer the questions without cheating?
The public has a right to know.
I won’t call CNN fake News. I’ll stick with Counterfeit News Network.
Jake Tapper = dnc tool.
Wikileaks proved that.
In the past, Tapper was one of the few on CNN I would listen to.... but those days are gone.
I remember JT before, as you do.
Must have found the cult of his personality and allure of his innate brainpower too much to resist. Can happen to any daily media mouthpiece with a mic in hand. And usually does.
In some ways CNN’s reporting was worse than Buzzfeed’s. By publishing the whole so-called “dossier”, Buzzfeed allowed people to see for themselves how ludicrous the charges were, and therefore how false. CNN on the other hand, just mentioned the info, and said that the info was sourced from someone who the intelligence community previously had deemed credible. Ergo, there is no way that regular citizens wouldn’t think that there is something awful out there on Trump, and that it’s been deemed credible by our intelligence agencies. Now let people’s imagination run wild as to the info!
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