Title: Is CNN a credible news source? And, is it considered fake news? And, why does President Trump hate it so much? - Quora
Headings: Is CNN a credible news source? And, is it considered fake news? And, why does President Trump hate it so much?
Is CNN a credible news source? And, is it considered fake news? And, why does President Trump hate it so much?
Mark Throckmorton
Responding to: Is CNN fake news all the time? Whose interests is CNN serving when they publish unverified news?

Content: They’ve always felt this way, but it’s only been in the last 20 years where they’ve been able to create an effective right-wing media to run interference. It’s one of those ironies where, in the process of creating an alternative to what they consider fake, they actually created something that is much closer to being fake. Trump hates CNN simply because he doesn’t like their reporting on him. That’s not unusual. Public officials often hate how the media covers them. What’s unusual is that, as the highest ranking official charged with protecting the Constitution and our right to free speech, he’s making a concerted effort to delegitimize any person or institution that is critical of him and has endorsed considerably less credible sources that are supportive of him. Alex Zorach
, Founder & Editor at Bplant.org (2019-present)
Answered 3 years ago · Author has 1K answers and 3.1M answer views
CNN is not among my favorite news sources. According to Media Bias/Fact Check, an independent website that I trust a lot, CNN is rated “Left Bias” and “Mixed” in factual reporting. I don’t necessarily think that there is anything wrong with left-biased or right-biased sources, there are many sources rated in these ways on that site that I like, but I am more bothered by their rating of “Mixed” in the factual reporting category. Media Bias / Fact Check tends to give sites a fair amount of leeway before downgrading them from the “High” category to “Mixed” (i.e. a news network can make plenty of i
Continue Reading
CNN is not among my favorite news sources.