'Offender of the week': White House unveils website section criticising coverage by media

The White House has rolled out a new section of its official website on Friday that publicly criticises and catalogs media organisations and journalists it claims have distorted coverage, the Guardian reported.

- Agencies

The webpage is topped with a title that says: “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.”

Underneath is a tagline saying “media offender of the week”, which is followed by a video of reporters from different organisations that the White House said made false claims in their coverage of certain stories. The webpage elaborated these media offences into categories such as “bias”, “lie”, “malpractice”, “omission of context’, “left wing lunacy”, “circular reporting”, “misrepresentation” and “failure to report’.

Currently, the website lists the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as “media offenders”, accusing them of misrepresenting Trump's remarks. Below that are two columns. The one on the left identifies the media outlets, and names the reporters involved in allegedly distorting coverage below it. On the right column is their “offence”, followed by the “truth” and “sources” backing the White House's contention.