The MSM Fake News History: "Leave The Lying To Us!"

12/07/2016

The New York Times and the rest of the leftosphere is mighty concerned about “fake news.” Fake News includes those memes, they allege, that helped elect Donald Trump.

Last week, The Washington Post’s media columnist, Margaret Sullivan pontificated on the matter. According to the Post’s homepage teaser, “Trump has ushered in a world without facts. That’s scarier than you think. The president-elect’s inner circle is now utterly dismissing the existence of facts.”

Let’s forget the specifics of Madame Sullivan’s piece, and the rest of the fake news about fake news, and focus on the veracity of the aforesaid claim: that Trump “ushered in a world without facts.”

Not really. Here are few fake news items from the past:

The New York Times and Walter Duranty, who lied about Stalin — 1930s
The New York Times and Herbert Matthews, who lied about Castro — 1950s
CBS and Walter Cronkite, who lied about the Tet Offensive in Vietnam — 1968
The Washington Post and Janet Cooke, who lied about “Jimmy” — 1980
NBC, Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips, who lied about exploding GM trucks — 1992
CBS, Mary Mapes and Dan Rather, who lied about President Bush — 2004

It seems almost cruel to go on.

The leftist media “ushered in a world without facts” and was retailing fake news long before Donald Trump ran for president.

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