Donald Trump assault on CNN and BuzzFeed vox.com

He’s attacking them both, but their blockbuster articles were very different. At his first press conference as president-elect, Donald Trump repeatedly slammed two of the biggest media companies in the country for publishing blockbuster articles claiming that Russia has compromising personal and financial information that it could use to blackmail him.

But Trump’s attack conflated two very different stories — eliding a swirling controversy inside the journalism profession about the approach of the outlets that published them, one with broader implications for how we understand the press’s relationship with Trump.