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Social feeds. so there's so many different ways to discredit the press now from the top to the bottom, so the question isn't just how do journalists find the story and distribute it, it's, how do they get a hearing? >> right. and eric, you're a tv critic. a lot of folks look back at this election and we've heard people say that the tv press got it wrong by giving donald trump so much unfiltered early attention. and then we've heard a lot of trump supporters say the tv press got it wrong because they're overly critical of him and they don't get what he and his followers are really all about. >>...

Candidate. joining me now is jay rosen from the nyu department of journalism and npr tv critic, eric theegens. thank you both for being here. expound on your theory, because you're arguing that donald trump in his compulsive and aggressive use of lies poses a different challenge. >> yeah, it's not only that he blitzes the press with lies, it's that he has a movement behind them which is trying to discredit journalists at every turn. it's that he dominates the news agenda with his outrageous statements and misstatements in his twitter feed. and beyond that, there's almost an organized attack on...

Has not been shown to be true. and there's been no evidence presented to indicate that it's true. and we also have to be aware that donald trump seems to have a habit of making outrageous statements or doing things that garner headlines at a time when there's other bad press that's surfacing, that's related to him or related to his administration. there's been some tough reporting in "newsweek" today. about his business conflicts, and there's been some suggestion that one reason why he's meeting with kanye west now is that it's something worth talking about, that may distract people from this ...