White House pledges to take media to task with a doublespeak ‘running war‘

President Trump has begun his stint in the White House with an Orwellian bid to cement his own 'alternative facts' facts by vowing a ‘tooth and nail’ fight with the established news media over facts and figures.
A ‘running war‘ was promised following a row over crowd estimates at Trump’s inauguration with White House press secretary Sean Spicer alleging that the media had manipulated crowd photos on National Mall to make crowds look smaller than the 1.8m who attende