President Trump has been complaining for years about “Fake News” and there were plenty examples in 2018. Certain ones jumped out this past year for their extreme bias. Here is a look at just a few..
A Time Magazine cover featured a crying Honduran girl, claiming she had been separated from her parents.The magazine tried to make it look like it was an example of Trump’s cruel policy of separating illegal immigrant children from their parents at the border. But her father said the 2-year-old girl hadn’t been separated from her mother. Nor was her mother fleeing violence. Her mother had previously been deported from the U.S.
The media, starting with The Arizona Republic, used photos from 2014 taken under the Obama administration to show detained illegal immigrant children in cages.The photos were reported as if they were taken during the Trump administration.
The New York Times claimed Nikki Haley put in $52,000 curtains at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The Times headline blared, ““Nikki Haley’s View of New York Is Priceless. Her Curtains? $52,701.” In response, California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu requested an oversight hearing on the U.N. ambassador and her deputy’s spending. The Times’ article buried an important fact. The Obama administration made plans to buy the curtains in 2016. No one consulted Haley. The Times was forced to change its headline and add an editorial note.
CNN claimed Ted Cruz was too scared to come on the network to discuss gun control and the Parkland shooting. But the truth is Cruz had just did an interview with CNN about it the day before, which CNN didn’t bother airing.
A former “CNN Journalist of the Year” winner admitted in 2018 to making up interviews and facts in at least 14 articles about life in America. He won the award while writing for a leading German newspaper, Der Spiegel. One article about the small town Fergus Falls, Minnesota, contained 11 “absurd lies” according to people who live there. Relotius portrayed them as hillbilly, gun-obsessed racists.