ABC Spends Last Day of 2017 Wailing About Trump’s Threat to First Amendment

Scott Whitlock | January 2, 2018
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[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC on Sunday spent the final day of 2017 whining about the term “fake news” and insisting that Donald Trump is a threat to the First Amendment. With no mention of the network’s demonstrably fake reporting, This Week guest host Martha Raddatz complained, “There was an attack on the media, on the First Amendment that we have not seen before, really, in this country... and the profound effect that can have. This is a President, as you know well, who likes attention from the media. On the other hand, he calls us fake news.” USA Today’s Susan Page responded by lamenting, “Well, I’m very concerned as a citizen that a lot of Americans no longer trust the mainstream news media to be telling them the truth.” Again, there was no mention of the fact that ABC had to suspend correspondent Brian Ross for incorrectly reporting that candidate Donald Trump instructed Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian officials.

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