seriously because journalism is an important institution in this country. let me read directly from the book. in part, the executive editor of the time said publicly he didn t want the times to be the opposition party. is news pages were unmistakably anti-trump and she believes the same is true of the washington post, quote, some headlines contain opinions on stories labeled as news analysis. people on the left say this is just whining, now jill abramson is saying is true. it is an incredibly important point to bring up that we discussed before, the blending of news and opinion and social media has greatly contributed to this kind of problem now that so many news writers or journalists are on twitter or instagram sharing personal opinions that may not reflect the way their work is supposed to be put forward but i did notice a
tom and elise, thank you. there is an interesting twist here also on north korea today. keep in mind, if there is one thing president trump despises, it s leaks and anonymous sources. since taking office, he has said multiple times that he wants leakers thrown in prison. so, the question i m asking today, then, is why did the president just retweet this fox news report, a report that cites anonymous intelligence officials? the report, which cnn has now confirmed, says that spy agencies have detected north korea loading missiles on a patrol boat. but remember here, one of the president s tweets from back in may read like this. whenever you see the words, sources say in fake news media, and they don t mention names, it is very possible that those sources don t exist but are made up by fake news writers. #fake news is the enemy. also worth noting here, just a couple hours after the president retweeted this fox news report citing these anonymous intelligence sources, the u.n.
up by fake news writers. this morning he somehow managed to undermine his own logic. the justice department and the intelligence community with a single retweet. that s still ahead on morning joe. discover card. hey. what can you tell me about your new social security alerts? oh! we ll alert you if we find
national security agency. the assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the american intelligence community. ainsley: i read an article this morning said did the new york times also cut back on fact checker staff? pete: those are the ones protesting outside laid off? ainsley: right. eat. steve: keep in mind apparently they did not issue that correction until one of the news writers there repeated that as it turns out false claim. pete: this is what they call fake news. repeating, repeating, repeating false claims until they become true in the consciousness of people who want to believe russian collusion is the boogie man. it turns out that wasn t the indicates. you pointed out the four agencies while very credible with the people who work in a lot of them could have had political angle under the obama administration. ainsley: listen, the best advice is don t repeat what susan rice says. [laughter] because susan rice, we know what she said about benghazi. we know what she
yet the president would have the public believe otherwise. he tweeted over the weekend, quote, it s my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies by the fake news media. he goes on, whenever you see the words sources say and they don t mention names, it s very possible those sources don t exist but are made up by fake news writers. fake news is the enemy. keeping them honest, john miller or john barron may have something to say about that. those are the side da nichls that the president used, fake names, fake stories, real fake ne news. the fake news he now objects by cnn and many others. the president has not shied away from unnamed sued da nichls when it fitted him.