It was obvious on Day 1 that they were going to take anything he did and turn it into a furious denunciation. Remember how they lied about him dumping the fish food into the koi pond? He was just following the lead of the Japanese prime minister, who had just done the same thing. "Trump tries to overfeed and kill rare fish" dominated the news cycle for 24 hours.
It makes it all the harder to call him out on his actual fuckups when the media is this dishonest. It's been my experience that the bigger "news" organizations tend to have the mindset that actual research is superfluous as they assume their reputation insulates them from challenge.
It was obvious on Day 1 that they were going to take anything he did and turn it into a furious denunciation. Remember how they lied about him dumping the fish food into the koi pond? He was just following the lead of the Japanese prime minister, who had just done the same thing. "Trump tries to overfeed and kill rare fish" dominated the news cycle for 24 hours.
It makes it all the harder to call him out on his actual fuckups when the media is this dishonest. It's been my experience that the bigger "news" organizations tend to have the mindset that actual research is superfluous as they assume their reputation insulates them from challenge.