Donald Trump is actually right about one thing–he is, in fact, treated differently by the MSM than other presidents. Of course, that only happened because he lies so frequently and shamelessly. He left the media with two choices: they either had to call out his lies or permit themselves to be used on a daily basis as a conduit for “alternative facts.” They chose the former, and we can be grateful for it.
The other element of this was that, with complete GOP control of the government, there was no opposition figure who could be an effective fact-checker. With Democratic control of the House, that is no longer the case. Will the media acknowledge the change of conditions and go back to the old, more comfortable rule of putting the onus of protecting the record on Nancy Pelosi? We’ll see.
Not surprisingly, based on yesterday’s press conference, the change hasn’t happened yet.