It matters little, in the end, whether Trump had a momentous inauguration turnout or not. But the mainstream media should think before claiming a whole set of facts are false; they have been guilty of purposeful twisting of the truth too many times
Who Decides Which Facts are "Alternative" and Which are Real?
When White House counsel Kellyanne Conway said on NBC News that the White House Press Secretary, Sean #, had presented the press with "alternative facts" about the size of Donald Trump's inauguration crowd, the press immediately concluded that alternative facts were, in fact, lies. They've had a field day with it ever since.
Yet # argued at a January 23 press conference that if the press publishes a correction, it is not necessarily seen as lying. So, too, the press shouldn't assume the White House is lying if they are proven wrong. However, # maintained that the inauguration viewership--including online viewers and television viewers--was the largest ever.
