Article snippet: Posted at 9:04 pm on May 30, 2017 by Jay Caruso Media criticism vis a vis how the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN and other mainstream outlets cover the Trump administration as opposed to the Obama administration is all the rage through the first four months with President Trump in office. Some of the criticism is fair, but some of it also falls into the “Well what about……?” area when trying to deflect attention away from reporting focused on the Trump administration. Sometimes the need to “prove” how some mainstream media outlets are supposedly “ignoring” news, the critics just get it wrong. This happened recently with Fox News and Eric Wemple wrote about it: There’s only one problem: The NY Times not only covered the story. They broke the story nearly a month earlier on April 28th. The story was on page 1 of the NY Times, written by Charlie Savage: Not only that, but Fox News also got it wrong on The Washington Post not reporting it. James Rosen is an excellent journalist, and he took to the air to correct the record, giving credit to the NY Times for breaking the story and providing follow-up as well as credit to the Washington Post for covering the story as well. As for the publication credited with “breaking” a story reported nearly a month earlier, their excuse for not linking to the NY Times or Washington post comes off as disingenuous: I have issues with the NY Times and Washington Post from time to time. Like any media outlet, they at times exhibit sl... Link to the full article to read more