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That the old media is hostile to the new Administration is not a surprise. But that hostility has become something more -- or at least it has in the eyes of a few key media watchers.

The press is in a snit (still) over Donald Trump's press conference. Trump took exception to, and had a verbal altercation with, CNN reporter Jim Acosta. Trump called CNN "fake news." Acosta took offense, and loudly demanded an opportunity to reply. Trump shut him down.

The big story roiling the media and political world late in the week is the publication of a so-called dossier on Donald Trump.

The press has been in a lather about "fake news" since the November elections. They contend it's a (right wing) threat to truth, democracy, the American Dream and, very likely, the next sun rise. We are finding more and more examples, however, that the "fake news" problem is one that has deep roots in the credentialed press -- with its layers and layers of editors, fact checkers, and lawyers.

In an off the record meeting with network bigwigs at Trump Tower, one that the press thought was a meeting to discuss access to the new president, Donald Trump delivered a grade-A tongue lashing instead:

A Pulitizer prize wining columnist for the Detroit Free Press, Stephen Henderson, thinks it's time to murder legislators who support school choice: