For over a year, we've been hearing from political figures that the media is fake, the media is lying and the media is making things up out of thin air.

This isn't true. Journalism isn't the enemy. Journalists aren't out with any agenda except to get the truth and give it to the people. Perhaps the truth is simply hard for people to grasp, so they assume it must be false, and blame the media instead.

That's easy to see, especially in the top stories that have surfaced over the last year and a half or so. Who would want to believe that our president has connections to Russian hacking?

When I take in news, I don't see "fake" news. When I see journalists covering hurricane damage and rescuing people from there homes, I don't see the fabrication of a situation. When I see journalists risking their lives to investigate business fronts for sex trafficking rings, I don't see a fictional creation of events. I see journalists doing anything and everything they can to get the news to the audiences that need it.

Now, I'm in no way saying that everything you read on Daily Mail's Snapchat Discover Story should be taken as the cold, hard truth. And I'm not saying that People magazine's anonymous sources make good journalism. I mean, where's Kylie's baby?

I'm not saying that journalists don't make mistakes. We're humans. We're flawed. We misunderstand. We misrepresent.

What we do not do is intentionally skew and sell fake stories as truthful ones. News, by definition, is truthful. So if something is fake, it's no longer news.

Fake news, in Donald Trump's definition, doesn't exist. For a journalist, news is accurate, clear and informing. False news exists for journalists.

Calling something fake because you don't want to believe it or because you don't want other people to believe it is conniving and immature. Make decisions you would want to see on the cover of a newspaper, not ones you're going to deny and place the blame on someone else.

The news is not the enemy.