Under Obama, press consistently used administration statistics, reports in its friendly, fawning reporting designed to further the Obama legacy. Now that President Trump has taken office, the press has reinvested in oppositional journalism
A recent Washington Post article by media reporter Paul Farhi raises the alarm that the White House Correspondents' Association has not once, but twice, assigned a Daily Signal employee, Fred Lucas, to be the pool reporter, i.e., the reporter who serves as the "proxy for the rest of the press corps." The Daily Signal is the "news and commentary site" founded by the conservative Heritage Foundation, he reports, labeling it an "advocacy organization."
"In other words," writes Farhi, "the news that reporters received about the vice president came from a journalist employed by an organization with a vested interest in the direction of White House and federal policy."
