The Fake News Awards were Lame
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After solving all the world's problems, that left President Trump time to come up with the fake news awards.
And while it would have been nice to see CNN's Brian Stelter strolling down the red carpet, Trump's Fake News Awards were just plain lame.
After a number of delays, the winners of the fake news awards were announced on the Republican Party's website, which promptly crashed.
How fitting.
The awards was basically a rehash of some of the media mistakes. The top spot went to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for claiming that the economy would be hurt by Trump's election.
In second place was ABC's Brian Ross, who was suspended by the network for a month after messing up a key detail in a story in early December about one-time national security advisor Michael Flynn. "ABC News' Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report," the commendation reads.
Third place on the list went to CNN and reporter Manu Raju, who corrected an error in his reporting regarding Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks.
In fourth place was Time magazine. Early on in the Trump administration, a reporter for the magazine mistakenly reported that a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was removed from the Oval Office. In reality, his view of the bust was merely obscured. He apologized and quickly set the record straight.
Fifth place went to The Washington Post and blogger Dave Weigel, who Trump criticized in a tweet in early December. Weigel's offending tweet related to the size of the crowd at one of Trump's rallies.
CNN appeared three additional times on the list, The New York Times appeared a second time and Newsweek got one nod.
Fox News was sparred from the list.
Gee.... I wonder why?
As for tweets about the Fake News Awards, this was our favorite:
