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Good morning. I'm Zach Monterlera with your Playbook Audio Briefing here with Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer.

And today we're talking about fake news and what it means in Washington, D.C.

This is a favorite rallying cry, the president and his supporters, that the mainstream media is fake news, fake news, fake news,

but it's not something that's always true.

The president uses it to de-legitimize the media for reports that we find out are true

later on.

Yeah, I think it's certainly been something that the media has been dealing with since

Donald Trump became a serious political candidate.

He loved to rally his base with this rallying cry and also kind of beat up on reporters.

He's taken a much more personal tone when reporters write stuff that he doesn't like.

It's kind of a brave new world, frankly.

You've seen across the globe, basically, strong men leaders, and some democratically elected

leaders say use the fake news mantra.

I mean, I've recently seen in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who himself grew up in the United

States and is very friendly with Donald Trump.

You've seen him talk about fake news.

And this is a dangerous thing because every news

organization makes mistakes. And I don't think I've made more than two or three in my life, but

I mean, two are the very exception. No, but seriously, every news organization does make mistakes.

And but the vast majority and 90 plus percent of news reporting is true and based in

fact and well grounded and triple sourced and often confirmed by the people who say it's fake

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