You get the idea. Everybody’s on the same page, using tried-and-true astroturf language to smear anyone asking questions about Clinton’s medical condition. We later discovered that Clinton was, indeed, secretly ill at the time. Yet these reporters declared definitively, as a matter of fact, that she was not.

We’ve invited political operatives into our fold as consultants, pundits; and even made them reporters, anchors, and managers in our newsrooms. We’ve become a willing receptacle for, and distributor of, daily political propaganda. And because we invite both sides to feed us, we call it fair. In many ways, some media outlets have become little more

The media widely reports bogus witness accounts of Brown getting shot

The Post ends up publishing an embarrassing editor’s note. It reads, in part: A number of those [websites on PropOrNot’s Russia propaganda list] have objected to being included on PropOrNot’s list, and some of the sites, as well as others not on the list, have publicly challenged the group’s methodology and conclusions. The Post, which did not name

“The military does it all the time. They can delete somebody’s tweet or their entire Twitter account,” he says. “Did you know that? Like it never even existed!”

There’s record of only one reporter in the whole bunch pushing back: the late Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed (who died nine months later in a fiery, single-car crash).

Obama also said Trump’s suggestion of a “rigged election” was unheard-of. “I have never seen in my lifetime or in modern political history any presidential candidate trying to discredit the elections and the election process before votes have even taken place,” said Obama in the October 2016 news conference. “It’s unprecedented.” (Except that

Delaware or Wyoming. “Both of those states have really lax laws on disclosure for their companies, which makes it really attractive for people who want to hide those kinds of transactions.”

I take issue with the last piece of advice since I wouldn’t trust Snopes as an unbiased fact-checker as far as I could toss a boulder. The idea of making truth police out of parties with political and corporate interests seems doomed at the start.