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One of the largest newspapers in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas began the process of filing a federal complaint after an immigration official at one of the bridges in Reynosa threatened and assaulted one of their photographers. The newspaper is also notifying Mexico’s Human Rights Commission. The alleged assault comes at a time when Mexico continues to be labeled by international press freedom groups as one of the most dangerous places for journalists.

If Peter Alexander did nothing wrong, why are the media and their Never Trump lackeys covering up the truth of what happened, the full exchange, and the full context of the exchange?

Calls are increasing for cable networks to stop airing President Donald Trump’s press conferences live as critics believe Trump is turning White House news briefings into virtual campaign rallies that can “get people killed” with lies about the Coronavirus crisis. The pressure only increased after Trump’s Friday briefing. 

A journalist has a duty to report the truth, and to hold the media to account. But a journalist is also a member of a community, and a citizen of a nation.

“Frozen 2” star Josh Gad defended NBC’s Peter Alexander after the reporter’s spat with President Trump at Friday’s coronavirus task force press briefing. Gad called Trump a virus and said he’s a “pig rolling in s**t.”

Fact check – CLAIM: NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander claims he asked the president to calm Americans, and he lashed out.

VERDICT: False. Alexander first asked whether the president was giving Americans “false hope.”

NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander insisted that his question to President Donald Trump — suggesting his briefings on the Chinese coronavirus were offering “false hope” to Americans — had no ill intent.

“Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope and misrepresenting preparedness right now?” Alexander asked.

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell accused Fox News of lying about the coronavirus outbreak, which he said was done “deliberately” and endangered millions of people’s lives Wednesday night on his show.

Earlier this week, a Facebook “bug” censored thousands of links to genuine news stories about the Wuhan coronavirus, incorrectly labeling them as “spam.”

An NBC News employee has died from the Chinese coronavirus, according to a company memo published by the Daily Beast on Friday morning. 

Left-wing media are falsely claiming an NIH immunologist must obtain aborted baby tissue to find treatments for the coronavirus.

Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson called on Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) to resign after reports show he sold off hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock after signaling a warning to a group called the Tar Heel Club about the threat of the coronavirus.

Guest host and network political analyst John Heilemann said when President Donald Trump calls the coronavirus a “Chinese virus,” it is nakedly, obviously and blatantly “racist.”

Thursday on MSNBC, former Obama administration FEMA Chief Craig Fugate ripped out his earpiece and walked off during an interview with Katy Tur about the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“It is fake news. It’s more than fake news. It’s corrupt news,” Trump said. “They write stories without calling anybody.”

If Trump were everything the fake news media claimed he is, I wouldn’t believe a word he said either. Hell, I’d be rollerblading naked through a nursing home with a raw bat in my mouth.

President Donald Trump joked Thursday at the White House that reporters in the press briefing room were still sitting too close, in reference to the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

Public mistrust of the media had increased America’s vulnerability to the coronavirus outbreak, argued Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak.

Politico founding editor John F. Harris has published a lengthy column in which he argues that the coronavirus marks the “end of Trumpism.”

To sum this up, the fake news media floods these words and terms into the American lexicon, and then sanctimoniously turns around and attacks those who repeat them as racist.

China censured the U.S. Wednesday for its “incorrect” characterization of the global coronavirus pandemic as Chinese in origin as it re-asserted the “right” to expel three American newspaper journalists and bar them even from working in nearby Hong Kong.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) accused President Donald Trump of being “so unbelievably sick,” adding that it was her view “he thinks none of us notice that he’s lying,” referring to the coronavirus outbreak.

Tuesday CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash praised President Donald Trump’s tone after his daily briefing on the coronavirus pandemic.

The Chinese Communist Party announced on Wednesday Beijing time that it would ban American citizen journalists from several mainstream publications from working in China, claiming it a “reciprocal” measure to the U.S. State Department limiting Chinese state media staff to 100 Chinese nationals per media outlet.

America’s deeply unserious but very corrupt and unreliable establishment media have no intention of changing their dangerous ways in the age of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Fact check – CLAIM: The World Health Organization (WHO) offered the U.S. coronavirus tests and we refused them. VERDICT: False. They were never offered to the U.S., and the U.S. typically does not accept WHO tests.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci dismissed blaming President Donald Trump and the Centers for Disease Control for delays on coronavirus testing in the early stages of the outbreak.

Krugman claims that the stock market is President Trump’s magical talisman and without it “there’s nothing left.”

The local Illinois news station WCIA mistakenly aired Election Day results on Monday, showing former Vice President Joe Biden (D) winning, the day before the state’s Tuesday primary election.

At least eight New York Times journalists shared a deceptively edited quote Monday from President Donald Trump’s recent call with state governors, creating the false impression that the president is denying federal support for ventilators that are needed in hospitals treating coronavirus patients.

A report from a German newspaper claiming that President Donald Trump wanted to secure exclusive American access to a coronavirus vaccine has proven to be false, but only after the story was repeated and spread by mainstream media outlets including Reuters, The Guardian, and Business Insider.

“SEAL Team” star David Boreanaz has slammed CNN for its coverage of the global coronavirus pandemic, suggesting that the cable news network is trafficking in fear.

If the police reports are true, and if what Mejias says is true, why was Gillum alone and drunk with another man who was not a guest of this wedding, but was overdosing on drugs?

Vice President Mike Pence’s Press Secretary called out CNN’s Jim Sciutto Monday morning for spreading an anonymous claim that the Trump administration is considering imposing a curfew across the country.

A Today show staffer has contracted the Chinese coronavirus, leading co-hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker to temporarily go off-air, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie announced on Monday.