What's the difference between a lie and a mistake?
When a conservative makes a mistake, it's a,lie. When the media tells a lie, it's a mistake.
Take Time's Zeke Miller who lied and claimed that MLK's bust had been removed. He was attacked for it by Trump and Sean Spicer. The media immediately rushed out stories claiming that it was a "mistake".
The Hill, BuzzFeed and the New York Times called it a "mistake". Slate described it as "incorrect". What's the difference between a lie and a mistake? Motive.
If the media had incorrectly reported Trump's schedule, that could be a mistake. But peddling a damaging narrative against a politician whom they hate that is perfectly timed with an ideological agenda and a date is not a mistake. It's a lie.
Likewise the media assumes that anything they believe that is disputed by anyone to the right of them is a lie. That's their perception of anyone to the right of the left as innately malicious.
The same media that insists on howling about "alternative facts" has a very convenient ethically flexible response to its lies. Its own alternative facts include claiming that ObamaCare is working wonderfully, that the economy has recovered and that Trump didn't really win the election.
Those are all lies. They are lies peddled non-stop by the media. The motive is obvious.
The media lost its influence because it stopped just being biased and became a megaphone for the most extreme elements on the left. Their confrontation with Sean Spicer is a direct consequence of their own corruption. They exist in a situation in which the average Trump voter has no regard for the media whatsoever and does not believe a single word coming out of it. Instead of reconsidering their options, the media is turning more extreme.