President-elect Donald Trump and his team on 11th January attacked media channels which has spread unsubstantiated reports about a damaging dossier which was collected for him by Russia, it is an incident that decorates how the old rules of journalism are applied in today’s rapidly changing media world. Donald Trump called BuzzFeed “a pile of garbage” for publishing the allegations against him and he got into a spat with CNN’s Jim Acosta during his first news conference since July 2016. But Trump praised media organizations that did not follow the BuzzFeed’s lead.
The combative press conference was less than two weeks before Trump’s Presidency inauguration, which is on 20th January and he was dominated by the questions about Russia and also his relationship with the American intelligence community. CNN also reported that Trump had been instructed by US intelligence officials to compromise his personal and financial information that had been collected by Russia, to the people of America. The channel did not give any details about the information by saying the charges had not been verified yet, but the BuzzFeed soon published the news. Which is one of the most reputable media organization, following up the story even as they did not report any details.
Despite the following decisions, it took only a report for the news to spread so rapidly that within hours, one specific, obscene allegation was a top trending topic on Twitter. Donald Trump set up a bad-cop good-cop dynamic in the press conference. The upcoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer and Vice President-elect Mike Pence both preceded Trump and sharply condemned those who spread the false story. Spicer called BuzzFeed’s decision “outrageous and highly irresponsible,” while Pence said it was an effort by some in the media to delegitimize the election and discredit the incoming administration.
Pence said. “The people of America are totally sick and tired of it.” While, Donald Trump credited The New York Times, a newspaper with which he has always been at odds, because of its decision not to publish what it could not independently verify. Being questioned, Trump criticized both the CNN and BuzzFeed. He also said that BuzzFeed will suffer from the consequences, and also added that he think’s they already are suffering from the consequences.
Later Trump got into a sharp talk with Jim Acosta, who said to the president-elect, that he was attacking their news organization. “Can you give us a chance to ask the questions?”Acosta asked, for which Trump replied, “do not be so rude.”
Trump said that he is not going to give any questions to Acosta because “He was from fake news”. But later Trump took a question about intelligence leaks from Jeremy Diamond another CNN reporter.
CNN’s Jake Tapper criticize Donald Trump for conflating CNN and BuzzFeed, since they did not publish any specific allegations about Trump and the BuzzFeed did. The media network said reporting on the inner workings of government represented the core of what the First Amendment protects.
CNN stated that the members of the Trump transition team have been vocally criticized on their reporting and CNN is ready to encourage them to identify, specifically to what they feel is inaccurate.
On the 11th January night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Donald Trump’s aide Kellyanne Conway engaged in a serious discussion. Kellyanne Conway said on the issue that CNN gave BuzzFeed the imprimatur to move forward with its report on the Trump. Where Anderson Cooper replied that CNN could not be held responsible for what other news organizations does.
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