68 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List, by Sharyl Attkisson — who considers herself a person of the left and voted Green in the last presidential election. She’s won five Emmy awards and is highly respected.

We the media have “fact-checked” President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planet — and he’s certainly given us plenty to write about. That’s probably why it’s so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and “lies.” …

Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump’s claims are “lies” when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump’s statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they’re established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories — without labeling them as opinions.

What’s worse, we defend ourselves by trying to convince the public that our mistakes are actually a virtue because we (sometimes) correct them. Or we blame Trump for why we’re getting so much wrong. It’s a little bit like a police officer taking someone to jail for DUI, then driving home drunk himself: he may be correct to arrest the suspect, but he should certainly know better than to commit the same violation.

The list of media errors follows. Talk about “fake news”! And of course it leaves out errors of omission — stories they should have told about Trump or his successes or his supporters, but which they couldn’t bring themselves to write.

hat-tip Scott of the Pacific