Return to the fundamentals
By Chris Cillizza
February 19 at 12:20 PM
... Trump, backed into a corner by allegations of aides’ contact with Russian intelligence officials, turned his full rhetorical firepower on the news media — blasting the journalists who cover him as fundamentally dishonest, corrupt and an “enemy of the American People.”
Trump’s strategy is simple: change the conversation from a losing one (why are there so many unanswered questions about his ties to Russia?) to a winning one (the media is terrible and out to get me).
The media shouldn’t fall for it ...
The best way to combat allegations — from the president and many of his supporters — that the media is “the enemy” is to simply put our heads down and do our jobs. We aren’t the story. The story is the story. This isn’t — and never should be — “Donald Trump vs. the media.” It shouldn’t be Trump vs. anything but how his proposals check out and how they will affect the lives of Americans ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/media-under-attack-from-trump-needs-to-return-to-the-fundamentals/2017/02/19/1396a2ee-f6b8-11e6-9b3e-ed886f4f4825_story.html?utm_term=.d1e4904d5773