Instead of addressing their doubts on Friday, Mr. Trump again chose a lazy, dishonest path. What Mr. Trump never mentions, either, is the news media’s practice of giving the White House multiple opportunities for comment and rebuttal before a story appears — opportunities that the White House usually refuses. Are the news media being too hard on Mr. Trump, or are his team’s lack of experience and early stumbles generating an unusually large number of negative stories? On Friday he complained again about the media’s use of unnamed sources, something news outlets struggle with and Mr. Trump has taken advantage of in the past. When he insists, as he did on Friday, that a story backed by nine unnamed sources is “made up,” it’s obvious that Mr. Trump, not the media, is making things up.

Source: New York Times February 25, 2017 00:00 UTC