When Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss called the reporting on the team’s involvement in the Anthony Davis trade saga “fake news,” it raised a lot eyebrows, and not just because Buss is well-known to be fairly liberal politically and under normal circumstances would seemingly be unlikely to use such damaging rhetoric about the press that is more popular with the other side of the political spectrum.
Buss must have been upset with the way the news was handled, and in ways that extend beyond a successful person wanting to control the narrative about their business (although that would likely seem to be a likely factor as well).