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White House Launches Tracker To Call Out Media Offenders Dw 11 30

Bonisiwe Shabane
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white house launches tracker to call out media offenders dw 11 30

The White House has launched a tracker designed to call out "media offenders" every week. The site labels every story the Trump administration objects to by classifying them into categories like "lie" or "bias." The White House launched a new page on its website on Friday called "media offenders," listing news sites, reporters, and stories it claims misled the public. The top publications cited as "media offenders of the week" were the Boston Globe, CBS News, and the Independent. Reporters from those outlets were singled out for stories about a controversial video released last week by six Democratic lawmakers. The lawmakers, all of whom are military veterans or former intelligence officials, reminded service members they are not obligated to follow illegal orders.

In a video posted online last week, the lawmakers said, "Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home." The media misrepresented President Trump’s call for Members of Congress to be held accountable for inciting sedition by saying that he called for their “execution.” The Democrats and Fake News Media subversively implied that President Trump had issued illegal orders to service members. Every order President Trump has issued has been lawful. It is dangerous for sitting Members of Congress to incite insubordination in the United States’ military, and President Trump called for them to be held accountable. • Democrats released a video calling for service members to disobey their chain of command, and in turn, implied President Trump had issued illegal orders.• President Trump has never issued an illegal order.

The Fake News knew that, but ran with the story anyway. • Video of Democrat Officials Calling for Sedition• Trump accuses Democrats who urged military to resist illegal orders of ‘seditious behavior,’ suggests execution• Trump calls for arrest of ‘seditious’ Democrats who told troops their... A record of the media’s false and misleading storiesflagged by The White House. Scroll for the Truth. The White House has created a new section on its official website that publicly catalogs news outlets and reporters it accuses of misleading coverage, a move that supporters frame as media accountability and critics... The page, titled “Media Offenders of the Week” and branded with the tagline “Misleading.

Biased. Exposed.,” went live Friday and is linked from whitehouse.gov. It features a rotating “Media Offender of the Week,” an “Offender Hall of Shame” and a searchable database of articles, reporters and alleged violations such as “bias,” “lie,” “omission of context” and “left-wing lunacy.” The Washington Post, MS Now, CBS News and CNN top a running leaderboard the site calls a “race to the bottom.” Visitors are invited to sign up for a weekly email digest of “Offender... The tracker debuted days after six Democratic members of Congress released a video urging U.S. service members to refuse illegal orders, prompting a furious response from President Donald Trump and his allies.

In a Truth Social post, Trump described their actions as “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH.” Many outlets summarized his comments as calling for the lawmakers’ “execution.” The new White House webpage argues that coverage misrepresented what the president said. The White House is calling on the public to report what it has dubbed “Fake News”—the latest escalation of President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media. The White House recently launched what it is calling a “Media Bias Portal,” which lists journalists, news outlets, and articles that it has deemed biased against the Trump Administration. On Tuesday, the White House announced a tipline, encouraging Americans to “submit biased or undeniably false articles” in order to help “keep the Media Bias Portal updated.” The portal, the White House said, is “a service to truth and transparency.”

“Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies, purposely omitted context, and outright left-wing lunacy of the Fake News Media—a tall task that demands the help of everyone who believes in facts and accuracy... “So-called ‘journalists’ have made it impossible to identify every false or misleading story, which is why help from the American people is essential. The days of the Fake News Media controlling the narrative with lies, fake anonymous sources, and willful bias are over.” The portal includes an “Offender Hall of Shame”—a database of articles, news outlets, and reporters that the White House classifies with categories including “bias,” a “false claim,” a “lie,” “left-wing lunacy,” or "misrepresentation." The White House launched a "media offenders" page on its official website Friday, naming outlets it accuses of bias and "fake news" – including 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist the Boston Globe, CBS News and... Critics fear the initiative is aimed at delegitimising the very media outlets who could hold US President Donald Trump to account.

The White House on Friday launched a new "Media Offender of the Week" page targeting outlets it accused of bias and inaccuracies, prompting warnings from analysts that the initiative is part of a broader... The White House named The Boston Globe – a finalist for three Pulitzer Prizes just this year – CBS News and The Independent as its inaugural "offenders of the week" for stories the White... It also featured a "Hall of Shame" list of allegedly "misleading" articles, calling out TV stations CNN and MSNBC alongside The Washington Post (whose staff and affiliates have won more than 70 Pulitzers). The official White House X account promoted the initiative, stating: "Tired of the Fake News? We've got the place for you. Get the FACTS.

Track the worst offenders. See the Fake News EXPOSED." The rollout came as tensions between the White House and the media continue to escalate, with Trump directing a series of personal insults at reporters and pursuing legal action against several major news organisations,... US broadcasters ABC and CBS both agreed to pay up to $16 million to settle legal disputes filed by Trump. Donald Trump isn’t just content this week with personally demeaning female journalists, POTUS has now decided to make his war on the so-called “enemy of the people” online official with a new White House... Amidst the tragic shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members in DC on November 26 and a flurry of Truth Social posts and more attacks on Joe Biden’s legacy Friday from the ex-Apprentice...

It also urges vistors to “Scroll for the Truth.” Somewhat surprisingly, the newly minted mouthpiece slams the David Ellison-owned and now Bari Weiss-run CBS News over its coverage of Trump’s reaction to ex-Navy pilot Sen Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and five other members of... Trump went online to accuse Kelly and the others of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH.” He also reposted another Truth Social comment that proclaimed, “HANG THEM,” among other critiques. With the Boston Globe and the UK broadsheet The Independent joining CBS News at the top of the Media Offenders page, the traditionally PR pugilistic White House lists the “Offense” as: “The media misrepresented... Sidestepping the “execution” part of the story, one of the National Guard deploying White House’s talking points is “President Trump has never issued an illegal order. The Fake News knew that, but ran with the story anyway.”

The Trump administration has launched a new initiative in its war against less-than-glowing press coverage. A “Media Offender of the Week” list is now live on the official White House website, claiming that several outlets shared malicious stories about the president. The inaugural run of the list focused on coverage of President Donald Trump’s threats against several Democratic lawmakers who reminded military servicemembers of their ability to refuse illegal orders. Trump called the stunt “seditious” and floated the death penalty for Sen. Mark Kelly and others. The page claims CBS News, The Independent and The Boston Globe “misrepresented” Trump’s reaction and names the reporters involved with the story.

“The Democrats and Fake News Media subversively implied that President Trump had issued illegal orders to service members,” the White House claims. “Every order President Trump has issued has been lawful. It is dangerous for sitting Members of Congress to incite insubordination in the United States’ military, and President Trump called for them to be held accountable.” A video at the top of the page slaps a stamp that reads “seditious” over the congresspeople involved in the video. “The president has never given an illegal order,” a voiceover claims. “These people know what they are doing.”

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