I typically stay very quiet outside of very personal rings when it comes to my deep involvement in political news. Fake news is a distraction, and the media needs to stop calling it that. Journalism has a responsibility to rise above tabloids. Problem is they haven't and now we are sitting with CNN and Buzzfeed being equally as reliable, because Buzzfeed did a minuscule amount of journalism here and there and CNN did a lot of tabloid journalism.
Trump, Conway, and his entire team will bash the media, and use their bias to turn your attention to the "fake news" issue while hiding the real issues. Does Russia have anything on Trump? Does Trump have financial (or blackmail) ties to Russia? What is the impact of these connections if they exist? Are they worth worrying about? These are the questions I want answered, I don't care about the speculation.
The biggest problem I run into is Trump is trying his best to delegitimize the media, which scares the shit out of me. Its oddly reminiscent of previous foreign rulers burning books and persecuting journalists. Our news and media outlets need to learn how to stay in front of that, and the answer is stop with the shitty entertainment front. Let the gossip sites worry about the Kardashians, lets just get the facts out there.
I'm so tired of every controversy coming in and Conway doing a report trying to point to something different and asking why they aren't asking the hard questions about that. Trump is our next president, and whether he wants to believe it or not, he is responsible for 300 million people and responsible for our prosperity for the next 4 years. No president is the end all be all president, but they will be blasted by the media for every little mistake they make and analyzed by critics for the smallest things ever (see Obama controversy about getting off an airplane and not saluting the marine that one time). If Trump doesn't like it and turns to twitter to whine about it, then he needs to get out of the big boy seat.