Journalists Blame ‘Fake News’ for Shooting, Claim Criticism Is Now off Limits
Liberal media outlets have more than lived up to the “fake news” moniker President Trump bestowed on them following the election, after they ginned up the term to excuse Hillary Clinton’s loss. Now they are using the Annapolis shooting to assert they should no longer be criticized by President Trump — or anyone in the press — for shoddy reporting.
The man who killed four journalists inside the Capital Gazette newsroom on Thursday had a long running beef with the paper, because it reported in 2011 he was convicted for harassing a woman online. He sued for defamation, but the judge threw out his case. There is zero evidence his decision to open fire in the newsroom had anything to do with media criticism.
Nevertheless, journalists are trying to use the dead reporters as a shield against future criticism of their work. . .
I don’t want to hear the phrase “fake news” ever again.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 29, 2018
Another White House reporter doubled down on his charge that Trump “caused” the shooting, after he learned the shooter’s motive. “I stand by what I said,” Andrew Feinberg tweeted. “You cannot be POTUS, hold rally after rally to attack reporters, calling them fake, disgusting/dishonest & not expect someone to think shooting them is ok.”
You caused this, Mr. President.
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 28, 2018
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Huffington Post reporter Matt Fuller asserted journalists should “cool down the media criticism” because of the shooting.
I don’t know why this shooter attacked a newsroom, but I do know my very sweet mother just called me in tears because she thinks one of you people who yell at me on Twitter are gonna kill me one day.
So maybe we could take this occasion to cool down the media criticism thanks.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) June 28, 2018
White House spox Lindsay Walters, asked about Trump's criticism of the press during questions about the Maryland newsroom shooting, said he doesn't believe violence is acceptable in any situation “and we stand by that.”
Then she called a story about John Kelly “fake news”
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) June 28, 2018
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