“You are fake news” Donald Trump said to Jim Acosta of CNN"

-- Trump wasn't wrong.  

Mainstream media coverage of all things political has turned from journalism to political advocacy and everyone knows it.  There are myriad examples of deliberate quote mining and misrepresentation everywhere.  CNN is no angel (deliberately cutting feeds, omitting key context, etc), but neither are most of the media outlets (eg. Fox is probably just as bad). 

Their recent ploys at controlling the message by encouraging consumers, companies like Facebook, and governments to censor and regulate news in their favour would be palpably laughable if it wasn't a direct slap in the face for freedom of expression and peoples' right to hear all viewpoints.  Their bid for control smacks of the recent religious ploy at the UN to make blasphemy a hate crime.