Fact-check: White House's Conway uses conservative blog to claim media is hostile to Trump

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Source: PolitiFact

Fact-check: White House's Conway uses conservative blog to claim media is hostile to Trump

By Manuela Tobias on Sunday, July 23rd, 2017 at 6:18 p.m.

The White House says the media is hostile to the president and is using some new evidence presented by a conservative blogger to make its case.

But that evidence is faulty.

On Fox News on Saturday, Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump’s top advisers, argued that the media blocks important White House messaging by covering issues the public sees as unimportant.

"This is a media that has decided it’s going be very hostile," Conway told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on July 22, 2017.

Conway then cited two different bits of research to contrast the percentage of news coverage devoted to different political issues and the public’s general interest in each issue.

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Read more: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/23/kellyanne-conway/does-russia-take-75-percent-media-coverage/

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1. Media should treat every word as a lie by default

Most people, one should believe they are telling the truth unless proven otherwise.

But with Conway, the president and this administration, they've been caught in so many lies the default should be to assume they're lying.

Stinks, but they made that bed. They should lie in it.