"As President Donald Trump's approval numbers continue to plummet-he's now clocked his first-ever majority of male poll respondents giving a thumbs-down-he's reached for the pet crusade of all right-wing demagogues losing public favor: a culture war against the press. Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the Trump White House debuted its media bias tracker -a laundry list of alleged press outrages committed against the righteous, truth-telling MAGAfied executive branch."
"It itemizes ostensible distortions and falsehoods perpetrated by news outlets but doesn't bother to supply textual hyperlinks to the stories in question, except in a motley array of "sources" at the end of each entry. Doubtless the rationale here is to deprive the coverage of clicks, but the practice also alleviates the grudge-bearing authors of the site from needing to cite context, disclaiming language, and the White House's own responses in the main text."
"In this cauldron of cultural affront, the actual substance of the coverage cataloged on the site is crowded out. Take the lead entry, which presumes to document how the "Media Misrepresents and Exaggerates President Trump's Calls for Democrat [sic] Accountability" in relation to the video that six veteran Democratic Congress members recorded to remind service members that they can and should refuse to obey illegal orders."
The Trump White House launched a media bias tracker over the Thanksgiving weekend that catalogs alleged press distortions and outrages. The tracker lists perceived lies, misrepresentations, omissions, malpractice, and bias without providing direct hyperlinks to the original coverage, instead appending a miscellany of 'sources' and social-media posts. The site frequently cites White House social posts and partisan accounts like Libs of Tiktok as evidence. The lack of contextual citations and failure to include newsroom disclaimers or the administration's own responses amplifies grievance-driven social-media rhetoric and obscures the substantive details of the stories the tracker purports to analyze.
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