Hey, I'm Brian Seltzer, and this is Reliable Sources.

Our weekly look at the story behind the story

of how the media really works, how the news gets made

and how it can be made better.

This hour, the term fake news is out,

the term double standard is in.

The president and his pro-Trump media allies

have been hollering about a double standard

over the coverage of Roseanne and Samantha B. But are they the ones with two sets of rules?

And speaking a double standards,

MS NBC and Joy Reed,

she's apologizing again for old blog posts,

but what about those hacking claims and later even presidential

pardons now have a media strategy behind them. What is it? Frank Rich is here to

tell us. But first, Hurricane Trump. He blew into Washington 500 days ago and

it's been hard to keep up with all the damage reports, the lies, the corruption, the ethical scandals, the

unpresidential behavior. But sometimes it's also hard to recognize that we're in

the center of that storm. The president is very effective at playing the

media game and touting good news stories.

And there is good news.

I mean, take a look at the great economic numbers for May, which he previewed a little bit

early ahead of time by telling people to tune in.

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