More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Filling in for MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Monday, NBC national correspondent Peter Alexander wrung his hands over President-elect Donald Trump using social media to circumvent the liberal media: “...one of the real challenges here with social media is that Donald Trump can spew an idea that millions of people voted illegally and ultimately not be pressed to defend such a thing. We just talked about fake news, this sort of stuff propels a lot of people to believe it.”
Carly Fiorina’s former deputy campaign manager Sara Isgur Flores pushed back, pointing out how journalists had failed to adapt to the new media environment: “Well, I think the press is gonna need to find a new way to cover Donald Trump....Ronald Reagan was the television president, maybe more so than other president, and I think the press then struggled on how to cover someone who was also talking directly to voters....I don't think the press has figured this out yet.”