MSM Reporter Lambasted By The White House

SOTN Editor’s Note:
SOTN hesitated to post the BuzzFeed article below because of how clearly it misrepresents (read: fake news) the exchange between Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Editor Brian Karem.

As a matter of fact, Sanders absolutely destroys Karen regarding the issue of fake news production by the mainstream media (MSM). She correctly points out the overwhelming proliferation of false stories fabricated about the Russiagate scandal.

The Deputy Press Secretary does such a great job of unmasking the fake reporters at CNN that we decided to post this otherwise misleading BuzzFeed article.  See how this article is purposefully structured to make it look like the executive editor of the Montgomery County and Prince George’s Sentinel newspapers won the day.  The reality is that he got demolished … by the truth.

Now be aware that this tactic of accusing the White House of transgressions which the MSM is stone-cold guilty of committing 24/7 will likely increase.  Brian Karem was undoubtedly sent into this press briefing to serve as an example for other so-called journalists wanting to defend their patently false news reporting.

State of the Nation
June 28, 2017

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A Reporter Had A Heated Clash With A White House Press Secretary Over Fake News

“You’re inflaming everybody right here, right now with those words.”

David Mack
BuzzFeed News Reporter

The heated relationship between the Trump administration and the press boiled over Tuesday when a White House reporter clashed with deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over so-called fake news. 

Brian Karem — the executive editor of the Montgomery County and Prince George’s Sentinel newspapers, which serve the Maryland suburbs — accused Sanders of “inflammatory” comments to the press.

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“We’re here to ask you questions,” Karem said. “You’re here to provide the answers, and what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and say, ‘See, once again, the president’s right and everybody else out here is fake media,’ and everybody in this room is only trying to do their job.”

His passionate outburst came after the White House spokeswoman repeatedly assailed the news media for what she said was unfair coverage of the Trump administration. She cited journalists’ use of unnamed sources and continued coverage of the “Russia/Trump hoax.”

“If we make the slightest mistake, the slightest word is off, it is just an absolute tirade from a lot of people in this room,” Sanders said, “but news outlets get to go on, day after day, and cite unnamed sources, use stories without sources.”

But it was when Sanders referenced the resignation of three CNN employees following a retracted story on Russia that Karem became frustrated.

“Come on. You’re inflaming everybody right here, right now with those words. This administration has done that as well,” he said, referring to the use of anonymous sources.

“Why in the name of heavens — any one of us are replaceable and any one of us, if we don’t get it right, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us,” he said. “You have been elected to serve for four years at least. There’s no option other than that.”

For her part, Sanders said she disagreed completely with Karem’s assertions.

“I think if anything has been inflamed it’s the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media, and I think it is outrageous for you to accuse me of inflaming a story when I was simply trying to respond to his question,” she said. 

So, when we are wrong we correct ourselves but when has POTUS ever done that? We are not FAKE news.

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) June 27, 2017

Karem, who also writes a regular political column for Playboy magazine, told BuzzFeed News he spoke up during the briefing because he became frustrated “over the tainting all of us with the brush of ‘fake news’ and total disrespect for what we do.”