Admission From Columbia Journalism Review

 Winter 2019:

It may be time for journalists to acknowledge that they write from a set of values, not simply from a disinterested effort at truth. This will not be easy.

Even if we can agree that trust in government and trust in the media were too high before Nixon, it might still be that trust today has sunk too low. Has a healthy skepticism become a civically disabling cynicism? That is what Donald Trump feeds on: engendering such distrust in the media that around 40 percent of Americans seem to accept almost everything he says, even in the face of incontrovertible reporting to the contrary, as a kind of thumb in the eye of the so-called coastal elites. 

 

You MUST Read the Comments at Instapundit About ABC's Fake Coverage of the Kurds

Here.  There are so many examples of fake news coverage.  Example:

Here is a still from some BBC footage documenting the problem of soccer hooliganism in Britain.

And a picture from Braveheart.  The anime labeled Kurds counterattack hurts to watch.  The laugh muscles are complaining.

More Fake News and Hate Crimes

Chicago Police Department had reviewed hundreds of hours of video tape and found no evidence that this actor was attacked by MAGA hat wearing homophobes, out wandering the streets with a nose in subzero weather. And the left wonders why we no longer believe anything they say.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-cold-weather-20190127-story.html