It gets worse with each president. Trump has added a new twist. The media is fate news unless it supports your beliefs. This in effect, creates an environment in which voters disregard facts, great news for candidates where facts are a problem.
Obama did the same, Fox News was labeled "ultimately destructive".
Trump just pushed the envelop a little further, as did Obama.
Neither leader should have spoke about it but that is hindsight and it will get worse.
I think he's pushed the envelope a lot further.
I don't think so, Obama was pretty paranoid of Fox News.
Obama, Fox News and the Free Press - FactCheck.org
True. Obama did lash back at Fox News several times. However, what Obama did does not even come close to Trump attacks on the Media. More than once a day, on average, Trump has publicly assailed news outlet with claims of "fake news," "fake polls," "fake media," and "fake stories." After Trump won the election, he almost single-handedly turned the definition fake news on its head. Among his supporters, "fake news" is now a catch-all criticism for any news that Trump doesn't like.
Trump's daily spats with media is of little consequence. The danger lies when the president tells the American people don't listen to the press. They lie, lie, lie. He has more than once raised the question as to what should be done with the media. The answer to that question is of course to shut them up. When government decides that Americans have reached a point where they don't know what to believe, a government controlled news service will be in our future. And you know, most Americans would probably welcome it because of all good news they would hear.