Trump tags US media as nation's 'biggest enemy' after summit

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Last Updated : Jun 14 2018 | 2:55 AM IST

President Donald Trump challenged skeptical media coverage of his historic summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un, declaring that "Fake News" is the nation's "biggest enemy."
Trump has bristled against questions over his decision to meet with Kim, whose country is estimated to have 80,000 to 120,000 political prisoners. The president has dubbed his detractors "haters & losers."
"It's a mistake to see attacks on the media as separate from those things," said Jay Rosen, a New York University journalism professor. "It's the erosion of the common world of fact. If we can't agree on what the facts are, if there are no facts because they are in endless dispute, there is no accountability."

While Trump held a news conference at the G-7 summit in Quebec last week, he told reporters during one exchange that he "came up with the term fake news" because many journalists who cover him are "very dishonest." In response to a journalist representing CNN, Trump criticised the premise of the reporter's question and then criticized "fake news CNN" as "the worst."

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First Published: Jun 14 2018 | 2:55 AM IST

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