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Headline Roundup January 12th, 2017

Media Strategy on Trump

Summary from the AllSides News Team

President-Elect Trump used his first news conference to attack some members of the news media for "fake news". The news media needs to learn how to deal with "fake news", and with Trump, to stay legitimate and ensure freedom of the press.

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Tough Times ahead for White House-Media Relations?
Tough Times ahead for White House-Media Relations?

CBN

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President-elect Donald Trump has responded to news reports that Russia obtained compromising personal and financial information about him. In his first press conference in months, he called the reports a "tremendous blot" on the record of the intelligence community if such material had been leaked.

For President-elect Donald Trump, his relationship with the media is complicated at best.

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As Trump Berates News Media, a New Strategy Is Needed to Cover Him
As Trump Berates News Media, a New Strategy Is Needed to Cover Him

New York Times (News)

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“That” was Donald J. Trump’s inaugural news conference as a duly elected United States president-to-be, in which he called BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage,” called CNN “fake news” and more or less told the whole lot of reporters at Trump Tower to stuff it when it comes to his unreleased tax returns because everyday Americans don’t care and, anyway, “I won.”

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Why the media's Trump dossier coverage is suicidal
Why the media's Trump dossier coverage is suicidal

The Week - News

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The media is sinking to Donald Trump's level.

Reeling from their inability to stop his election, envious of his power to make people believe his most ridiculous statements, and rinsed by a needy mood for self-soothing, the media and other American institutions are greeting the era of Trump by lowering their ethical and professional standards and indulging in attention-seeking hysteria.

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