I Finally Know What It Feels Like To Be A Trump Supporter.

[Pagan]

For US news, I tend to read several just to get a feel for what is going on, then try to draw my own conclusions. NPR News is pretty solid, as is Reuters. I do read CNN/FoxNews with a big grain of salt because they are there to sell their programming, not present the news. Generally, if a story is reported on all 4, it is true. BBC/Sky News is also a good choice for English-language news on this side of the pond. Huff Post is just good entertainment. I do have the local news stations in several cities that I also check if something is happening as well. You can't trust just one outlet. I miss the days of Walter Cronkite.

[jollyhumper]

Noticed a discussion in a Facebook-version of this thread and couldn't help but see that one argument once again was how fake the news is.
Although I never acted as a journalist, I used to work in various media and media-related jobs. Whenever DonaldJ, or one of his supporters, shouts Fake News I can't help but think that the media has been asking for it. Watching how they didn't take his candidature seriously (who did, btw?) and how media over the years has turned into a click-bait whore, they sort of brought this upon himself.
A lot of serious newspapers etc *has* started to take this seriously, but I'm afraid they did that a bit to late.
The despot-behaviour of your President is kinda scary. (And believe me, we got this here too, now. Right wing politicians burning newspapers in photos, refusing to talk to certain papers and crying 'bias' and 'fake' whenever needed).
I have no idea how the media should solve this. Other than continue to be as honest as possible. If he does something good, say so, when he does something bad, dig dig dig.

It's funny (in a sad way) how he attacks SNL and liberal news saying they're biased and saying they should be investigated by law(!!!) when all he does in WH (except for ruining a lot of stuff) is watching TV and that is Fox News.
Scary.

Oh, I started to ramble, but as a 'media man' this occupies my mind a lot. And what I tried to say in a million words is; the "fake news" has been digging the grave themselves.

Jolly