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'Fake News Awards'

January 19, 2018 00:00:00


President Donald Trump tweeted out the winners of his "Fake News Awards" on Wednesday night, proclaiming, "And the FAKE NEWS winners are ...", with a link to the Republican National Committee website, reports Politico.

There, an unsigned entry opened by saying, "2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news."

Rather than specific awards, per se, the site listed 10 news stories - from a range of mainstream outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post - that Trump viewed as false.

The entries focused on stories where the media outlets had admitted errors and issued corrections, like those by ABC News' Brian Ross, who was suspended and then reassigned for an erroneous report on Trump and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Other entries included Time's mistaken report about Martin Luther King Jr.'s bust being removed from the Oval Office and CNN's incorrect reporting on when Donald Trump, Jr. had access to hacked WikiLeaks documents.


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