The media has often struggled to cover Trump's online supporters, whose skepticism of mainstream publications has evolved into a total rejection of the idea that places like CNN are even trying to report the truth. At the head of that rejection is the president himself, who regularly tweets that news outlets he doesn't like are "fake news." Media ethics experts who look at CNN's article on all this might discuss it in the context of a long and tricky media discussion about outing anonymous, racist internet trolls. On the Trump internet, however, the subtext of the meme is that "blackmailing" sources is a normal part of mainstream journalistic practice. The difference is, they believe, that someone finally got caught.