Media must be more careful when parroting Trump claims

“So we just had some very good news,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “Because of what’s happening, and the spirit and the hope, I was just called by the head people at Sprint, and they are going to be bringing 5,000 jobs back to the United States.”

“They have taken them from other countries. They are bringing them back to the United States,” he added.

The problem with Trump’s post-election boast is that Sprint’s plan to create these thousands of new jobs has been in the works since at least April 2015, two months before the president-elect even launched his campaign.

Newsrooms nevertheless ran with headlines that underscored Trump’s boast, and failed to note the easily verifiable fact that the jobs plan pre-dated his bid for the White House.