• In a year and a half, President Trump has reportedly said or Tweeted over 3,000 false or misleading statements.
• In an overlapping period of time, the media responded by piling on and making an extraordinary number of false, misleading or erroneous reports. Some are so wrong as to be funny 🙂 [1]

The adversarial relationship developed into a full scale propaganda war between the Administration and the media.
The way to respond to accusations of fictional news reporting is to double down on accuracy, objectivity and remaining calm. Unfortunately, the news industry continues to harm itself through self destructive behavior typical of middle school drama. This behavior is bewildering.
[1] Some of the items described in the article were previously confirmed by me, although not necessarily mentioned on this blog. Based on my sample of items that were verified I presume that most of that list is accurate.