Overview
- The official “Media Offenders” portal names outlets and individual reporters, features a weekly offender slot, and maintains a Hall of Shame that currently ranks the Washington Post first.
- Initial listings focus on coverage of Trump’s remarks about Democratic lawmakers in a “seditious” video, with The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent tagged as the first offenders.
- At Monday’s briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced a New York Times analysis of Trump’s schedule and stamina as “unequivocally false” and singled out reporter Katie Rogers.
- The White House points to recent physician statements and testing to assert the president is in excellent health, while the Times says its reporting is accurate and based on first-hand facts.
- After Fox News objected to a misattributed reporter, the administration removed a Fox entry from the page as media-watch groups criticized the tracker as a politicized naming-and-shaming tool.