All of us should consider the blessings that our current president bestows upon us. For example, the blessing of “fake.”

Our current president works hard to define journalists and news outlets as fake. He does this constantly. This has led whole groups of Americans to believe the media is actually fake, is lying to us, and can’t be trusted. But according to media sources including NPR, the president himself has said he uses this strategy to render reporting that is critical of himself or his policies as unbelievable. Additionally, he told Leslie Stahl that he “slams” the press to “demean” and “discredit” them so the public won’t believe negative reports. He has acknowledged it as a technique to manage political perception, terming the press as an “enemy of the people” and accusing them of bias so he looks better.

Our current president has blessed us with the need to carefully decide what is true and what is fake. He has pushed us into a corner where, to determine the path of our nation’s future, we must ask ourselves: if our president himself acknowledges this is a strategy to control press coverage of his image, is it the press that is fake, or is it him?

All of us should consider the blessings that our current president bestows upon us. For example, the blessing of “fake.”

Our current president works hard to define journalists and news outlets as fake. He does this constantly. This has led whole groups of Americans to believe the media is actually fake, is lying to us, and can’t be trusted. But according to media sources including NPR, the president himself has said he uses this strategy to render reporting that is critical of himself or his policies as unbelievable. Additionally, he told Leslie Stahl that he “slams” the press to “demean” and “discredit” them so the public won’t believe negative reports. He has acknowledged it as a technique to manage political perception, terming the press as an “enemy of the people” and accusing them of bias so he looks better.

Our current president has blessed us with the need to carefully decide what is true and what is fake. He has pushed us into a corner where, to determine the path of our nation’s future, we must ask ourselves: if our president himself acknowledges this is a strategy to control press coverage of his image, is it the press that is fake, or is it him?

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