Yeah... all we can do is go "on the record"....no point dwelling on it now. Onwards and upwards
To your point about "Trump getting the media off his back"
I think the media have crossed a "dishonest sleaze" line.. even by their own precedents.
They have become a parody of themselves. The bobble heads on TV with "Serious concerns" about Trump.. are talking to themselves.... only of interest to themselves.. they are in fact disappearing up their own asses in a puff of smoke. It is all publicity for Trump. Real people do not share their feigned "concerns"
As an aside:Throughout my time online I have seen "posers" who boast that they don't watch TV or MSM etc
They extoll others to cut themselves off too. They are usually quite rabid about it

This of course is silly.

At the very least one needs to know what "the enemy" is up to (if you regard all MSM as the enemy)
"Alternative" news sources are themselves "variable" to say the least.The interwebz abound with fake news and/or dubious "Conspiracy Theories". Such "news" finds fertile ground in the minds of those who decry MSM. The MSM-aphobes invariable proselytize CONSTANTLY.... past the point of it being TEDIOUS to read their posts. The fact that they feel the need to constantly bang on about what they do and demand (convince) others to stop watching MSM like them, indicates their own insecurities. They show themselves to be weak-minded. REAL men (people) can handle seeing and reading crap without falling prey to it. I might have a bit more respect for somebody if they just quietly got on with not watching MSM (sticking their daft heads up their own ass).. They just look petty and puerile when they constantly "boast" of this rather silly stance