Media must be more careful when parroting Trump claims

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President-elect Donald Trump is a different kind of political beast, and the press must learn how to wrangle him.

Newsrooms chase blindly after Trump’s tweets, and reporters are left simply parroting whatever the New York businessman says. Considering the incoming president’s penchant for falsehoods, exaggerations, untruths and flat-out lies, this simply won’t do.

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