{"id":41958,"date":"2018-12-24T21:54:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T02:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41958"},"modified":"2018-12-24T21:54:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T02:54:27","slug":"a-brief-history-of-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41958","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History Of Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Brief History Of Fake News<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The biggest weakness of liberal editors is that they need to reflect their world view.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When news broke out of Germany that an award-winning reporter for Der Spiegel<\/em> had been exposed as a serial fabricator<\/a>, my first inclination, before delving into the details, was to assume a certain way the story would unfold. It would involve a writer reporting from a leftist viewpoint in a highly literary<\/a>, as opposed to fact-driven, manner.<\/p>\n

Check and check. Claas Relotius, honored in 2014 as CNN\u2019s \u201cJournalist of the Year,\u201d was especially adept at a stylized form<\/a> of \u201creporting\u201d that read like good fiction. His articles often featured lazy anti-American<\/a> stereotypes that serve as easy comfort food for European leftists: vigilantes on the Mexican border, death penalty eyewitnesses. Relotius provided himself a lively palette from which to paint his biased fiction.<\/p>\n

\"\"Relotius will go down in shame with other famous journalist hoaxers, yet the people who most enabled his betrayal of the reader will likely avoid similar ignominy. Which is head-scratching because if a criminal profiler were to come up with a pattern for these kinds of frauds, they would find one constant: editors who were hoodwinked because their fake reporters were writing exactly what they wanted to read.<\/p>\n

Janet Cooke<\/strong><\/p>\n

The original black eye to the mainstream leftist journalism machine came in 1980 with the infamous Janet Cooke caper at The Washington Post<\/em>. Cooke, a 26-year-old reporter, won the Pulitzer Prize for an article on an 8-year-old heroin addict named Jimmy. The article featured that same literary style of reporting that reads like a good book instead of an informative news article. And it fit perfectly into a liberal editor\u2019s wheelhouse with its stirring, highly-personalized account of a minority social crisis in need of a solution, as written by a black woman.<\/p>\n

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