And, indeed, conservatives have created a constellation of alternative media more to their liking - Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, to name the most obvious. It got worse when Trump operative Kellyanne Conway described the lies as "alternative facts," a phrase that drew instant ridicule. In other words, stop reporting the facts because they put the lie to Trump's alternative reality. Without a vigilant press and without the free flow of government information, Trump can lie with impunity. He can govern based on the "alternative facts" he gets from the far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists he apparently follows quite closely.

Source: Huffington Post January 27, 2017 22:50 UTC