Kellyanne Conway slams press for 'snarky comments' and 'eye-rolls' as she blasts 'individuals who call themselves reporters' after Bannon said they're the 'opposition party'

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Donald Trump's closest counselor took on the his battle with the 'dishonest media' Friday morning, blasting 'individuals who call themselves reporters' for writing their opinions instead of the news.

The blistering media-bias condemnation came a day after chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon blasted America's political press corps in a New York Times interview.

'Donald Trump understood America the way many did not, including those charged with informing America and educating America about the news – not their opinion,' Conway said on 'Fox & Friends,'

'There's an awful lot of opining going on by individuals who call themselves reporters. And you're supposed to talk about the news, not use a snarky comment here, an eye roll there, an adjective that is insulting or congenitally negative toward the president. That's really not the job.'

Top White Houe counselor Kellyanne Conway unleashed a stinging criticism on political journalists Friday, saying they're 'opining' instead of reporting

Steve Bannon (right), seen with Conway (left), on Thursday called the mainstream media the 'opposition party' against the Trump White House 

Bannon told the Times that the media 'should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile.'

He labeled reporters the 'opposition party' and said they were 'humiliated' by Trump's election.

'They don’t understand this country,' Bannon continued. 'They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.'

Conway went further, saying 'the entire election was a rejection of elites in the establishment.'

'That's many in the donor class, it's many in the two parties, frankly. It's certainly in the consultant class – which I always say is rife with "staff infection".'

'And it certainly is a rejection of some in the media who just never really give him a fair shake,' she added. 'If you look at some of these Twitter feeds that are a hot mess, they would never pass editorial muster in a newspaper or television station.' 

Conway said the easy way to detect unfair media bias is what's left out of an article

Bannon said reporters 'don’t understand this country' and can't figure out how Trump was elected

The Times wrote that Bannon was among the White House advisers who suggested Press Secretary Sean Spicer make his first appearance in the White House press briefing room Saturday and tear into reporters.

Asked if Spicer should be worried about losing credibility with the news media following his tirade, Bannon chortled.

'Are you kidding me?' he responded. 'We think that's a badge of honor. "Questioning the integrity" – are you kidding me?' 

'The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work,' Bannon continued Bannon.

'You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.' 

Conway said on Friday that an partisan White House press corps is 'dangerous to the democracy and for those around the world watching what we do and how this president is covered in his early days.

And she offered an 'easy' prescription for detecting anti-Trump media bias. 

'It's really the incomplete coverage that I am watching very closely,' she said. 

'It's: "Well, what's missing from the story? What was omitted? What's left on the cutting room floor that actually would inform the public factually about what's happening here?"'