{"id":11326,"date":"2018-08-09T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11326"},"modified":"2018-08-09T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T06:22:18","slug":"the-ancient-war-between-the-press-and-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ancient-war-between-the-press-and-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient War Between the Press and the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p>The media are furious that President Trump serially decries \u201cfake news.\u201d He often rants that journalists who traffic in it are \u201cenemies of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporters have compared Trump to mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler because of his dislike of the press.<\/p>\n<p>Trump may be crude to reporters, but journalists are also not so innocent. They have brought much of the present calumny upon themselves in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>The media seem to have little concern that their coverage is biased even though polls show that the vast majority of Americans believe the media intentionally reports fake news.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/08\/09\/the-ancient-war-between-the-press-and-the-president\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The media are furious that President Trump serially decries \u201cfake news.\u201d He often rants that journalists who traffic in it are \u201cenemies of the people.\u201d Reporters have compared Trump to mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler because of his dislike of the press. Trump may be crude to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1124,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2WG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9908,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/presidential-payback-for-media-hubris\/","url_meta":{"origin":11326,"position":0},"title":"Presidential Payback for Media Hubris","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/Defining Ideas \u00a0 \u00a0This article is reprinted from Defining Ideas, an online journal at the Hoover Institution. 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