#AlternativeFacts | #WhatTheyVotedFor
The headline from the New York Times comes with its own implications: “News Media, Target of Trump’s Declaration of War, Expresses Alarm”. Meanwhile, on the west coast, the Seattle Times ran the article on the right column of the front page―
Trump’s war with journalists boils over
CREDIBILITY UNDER ATTACK
White House blasts media for challenging falsehoods; defends ‘alternative facts’
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and we might, again, say something about implications. Locally, people tend to view the Seattle Times as tending more toward the conservative, but this is President Donald Trump, and this is what happens, to the one, when one is actually the President of the United States, and, to the other, goes out of his way to pick a fight with the Press.
How do you like them apples, Mr. President?
Yeah … we know. You don’t give a damn. You are, after all, President Donald Trump, and this is #WhatTheyVotedFor.
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Image note: Detail of front page for the Seattle Times, 23 January 2017.
Ember, Sydney and Michael W. Grynbaum. “News Media, Target of Trump’s Declaration of War, Expresses Alarm”. The New York Times. 22 January 2017.
————. “Trump’s war with journalists boils over”. The Seattle Times. 23 January 2017.
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