Since Trump’s election, here’s just a small sampling of fake news that
our media and our journalist class have propagated.
Early November: Spike in Transgender Suicide Rates
November 22: The Tri-State Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
December 1: The 27-Cent Foreclosure
January 20: Nancy Sinatra’s Complaints about the Inaugural Ball
January 20: The Nonexistent Climate Change Website ‘Purge’
January 20: The Great MLK Jr. Bust Controversy
January 20: Betsy DeVos, Grizzly Fighter
January 26: The ‘Resignations’ At the State Department
January 27: The Photoshopped Hands Affair
January 29: The Reuters Account Hoax
January 31: The White House-SCOTUS Twitter Mistake
January 31: The Big Travel Ban Lie
February 1: POTUS Threatens to Invade Mexico
February 2: Easing the Russian Sanctions
February 2: The House of Representatives’ Gun Control Measures
Maybe It’s Time to Stop Reading Fake News
Surely more incidents have happened since Trump was elected;
doubtlessly there are many more to come. To be sure, some of these
incidents are larger and more shameful than others, and some are
smaller and more mundane.
But all of them, taken as a group, raise a pressing and important
question: why is this happening? Why are our media so regularly and so
profoundly debasing and beclowning themselves, lying to the public and
sullying our national discourse—sometimes on a daily basis? How has it
come to this point?
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