There’s no mistake when it comes to how Donald Trump feels about the Fake News Media.
And try as they may, the media just can’t seem to shake that label.
Now it turns out Donald Trump was right all along. “Mainstream Media” really is fake news and this shocking report proves it yet again.
“Hands up, don’t shoot,” never happened in Ferguson, Missouri.
But that didn’t stop the narrative from spreading throughout the news media and in Black Lives Matter protests.
Drunken Duke lacrosse players did not rape a young woman at a party.
There was no gang rape of a college co-ed at a UVA fraternity party.
And who can forget “Jimmy’s World” written by the incomparable Janet Cooke of the Washington Post who won a Pulitzer prize in 1981 for an article she wrote, which was later found to have been fabricated.
“Jimmy’s World” was a profile piece about the life of an 8-year-old heroin addict. In the article, Cooke described in great detail the “needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms.”
Cooke’s article engendered so much empathy among readers, including Mayor Marion Barry, that an all-out police search for the boy was organized.
The search was, of course, unsuccessful and led to claims that the story was fraudulent. Mayor Barry, responding to public pressure, lied and claimed that Jimmy was known to the city and receiving treatment. Then Jimmy was announced dead shortly thereafter.
Those are some of the most memorable fake news stories. Stories that even after they were proven to be fake, still linger in the minds of many Americans.
But as most Americans know, fake news stories from the liberal media occur every single day.
Whether its NBC editing a video to make Republicans look bad, or CNN cutting an interview to take out damaging quotes, it is a daily occurrence.
And now there is yet another example, on a grander scale.
CNN’s 2014 “Journalist of the Year” and Der Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius resigned from his job after admitting he had fabricated stories over time “on a grand scale,” the German publication reported.
Der Spiegel, in a lengthy report on its website, said that Relotius, a 33-year-old reporter, admitted he had made up material for his articles and reports.
“Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, falsified his articles on a grand scale and even invented characters, deceiving both readers and his colleagues. This has been uncovered as a result of tips, internal research and, ultimately, a comprehensive confession by the editor himself,” Der Spiegel said.
For his part, Relotius admitted to fabricating all or parts of at least 14 stories, according to Spiegel.
Not surprisingly, the issue first came to light over a story about a vigilante group on the U.S.-Mexican border after a fellow reporter working with him began to question his reporting.
When asked about this story, CNN simply said Relotius was not employed by them.
Don’t be fooled by their silence.
The media knows what’s going on in their own inner sanctums and are frankly only upset about fake news stories when they get caught.
Share your thoughts about the Fake News Media with Pants on Fire News in the comments below.
RR
February 7, 2020 at 4:33 pm
Why does anyone on the left get more campaign money than the others or more delegates. Isn’t that unfair? Wouldn’t that infer winners and losers? Wouldn’t someone’s feelings get hurt?
They should all get a participation trophy and go home. They should be redistributing their money and delegates to those that don’t have as much.
Tom
February 7, 2020 at 4:34 pm
I am a Democrat and all news must be fake because in the dictionary it specifically states ‘News – completely lied false information.’ Now granted that was Pelosi’s dictionary and for some reason it was written in pencil it still is true.
Ernest Lane
February 7, 2020 at 4:42 pm
One of the 1st Amendment rights, of course, is “freedom of thee press.” Someone should research, starting with the Federalist Papers and early court cases, if the Founders meant that “press” means “fair,” “unbiased,” “presents both sides of an issue,” or anything like that. If so, “fake news media” should be shut down.
Ron
February 7, 2020 at 6:12 pm
Until the American People wake the hell up and realize the MSM is NOT in the news business this bull schiff will continue! The MSM is, in truth, the propaganda arm of the radical left, aka today’s Demo-rat Party! Just as Pravda was the propaganda arm of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union! No difference! None! News is filtered and spun to fit the Left’s narrative! If that isn’t convenient it is ignored as any and all positive accomplishments by the President, lied about, or made up out of whole cloth as with Trump/Russian collusion, and the impeachment charges!
John
February 7, 2020 at 9:01 pm
I for one just wish that the White House lawyers would start prosecuting the leadership of the left for the outright lies and hate speech they continually vent. If they did, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler and all the other tunnel rats would shut up for fear of being exposed and prosecuted. The vile acts of Pelosi during the, “State Of The Union,” speech were so hateful that she should be required to answer of resign. She claims to pray for people but I doubt that her god, Satin, hears.
Tony
February 7, 2020 at 11:27 pm
Reporters making up stories is nothing new. It’s been going on for 100+ years.
Hal
February 8, 2020 at 2:04 am
What else do you expect? All the news is owned by the left. They will never throw their own under the bus.
Bruce
February 8, 2020 at 3:09 pm
Come on, we KNOW the Media never lies, that is, when their mouth is closed! I trust the Media as much as I trust a wet toilet paper bridge! I have known for many years that the media lies like Linoleum! I do NOT care that it reached 65 degrees in the arctic or that a panda bear was born in China or that Joe smegma was shot on main street or that Mary Munchkin was hit on fourth and main street! I don’t care! That’s NOT news, that fluff and filler! All one needs to KNOW is this: “the god” of this world and the prince of the power of the air are the presiding ruler of the airwaves and News Media of all types! See the two above are the same, and are KNOWN as Satan! He is “the god” of this world, which was sceeded to him at Adams fall. See Matt 4:8-10 Satan has this power and he is in charge of the Media and the financial and govt’s of this world! So, NEVER believe what they Media says, they LIE, like their father the Devil! John 8:44 KJV P.S. Muslims, in Sharia Law no#1 are “OBLIGATED” to LIE to further Allah’s commandments! (Allah=”the god”)
Fred
February 10, 2020 at 5:58 pm
The Progressive Liberal CSAII/I Democratic Party Owned MSM Are Illegal Immigrant-Alien Sympathizers = ARE A BUNCH OF UN-AMERICANS, WHO NEED TO BE DEPORTED TO THOSE COUNTRIES THAT #45 = The Legally Elected US President Mr. Donald John Trump Put On A Travel Ban On All Of Those Extremely Radicalized Islamic Muslim Terrorist Countries, That Just Loves To Kill/Waste/Smoke/Murder All Non-Muslims For NO Reason At All, Example, Mr. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez Alias Mr. Jose Inez Garcia Zarate And Others!!!!!!
Keith D
February 10, 2020 at 11:40 pm
In reality NEWSPAPERS have had bias from the start!! The endorse, promote, and LIE! You go back to the Hurst,Pulitzer and al;l of them THEY started YELLOW JOURNALISM!!! This isn’t new but the people they use are pretty much ENTERTAINERS any more!IF you want JUST NEWS for YOU to decide go to OANN!! One American News Net. They do have conservative opinion but the 20 hours of the day not used for opinion is JUST NEWS! It shows how much we watch in ONLY ENTERTAINMENT!! FOX had a great IDEA to put on conservative news to counter act the leftist media but now that Ailes and Murdock have been ousted FOX has moved WAY LEFT TOO!!!!
Donald Nicholas
February 10, 2020 at 11:43 pm
Trust nobody, keep your BS detector on, use your knowledge and experience to help formulate your situational awareness. I guess that means become an informed citizen which is exactly what the democrats and the media do not want.
John J
February 11, 2020 at 12:07 pm
News media should be held to the highest standard of truth, ANY false reporting should be charged as a crime against the people and punished by long prison terms
Laughing atyou
February 14, 2020 at 7:51 pm
I believe we need a new law. You can write fiction all you want but it must be look labeled fiction at the beginning of the article. You can write factual news stories and find out later some facts were wrong, but you must give the announcement of finding corrections front page coverage. If you label something editorial it must be labeled fiction. If you say ssd something is news or imp li y news and it is fiction you lose your license to publish and if your a writer / reporter you lost your degree.
Basically if you make up your own stuff and you label it news or imply fact you lose your degree and right to publish unless you retract the story more vigorously then you wrote it.
Boiver Shagnasty
February 14, 2020 at 7:57 pm
For goodness sake…….I have read and erased this for two weeks. Isn’t it about time to remove it?
WhiteFalcon
February 16, 2020 at 4:34 pm
Interesting that Marion Berry was mentioned in this story since he was the D.C. mayor that was caught in a drug sting many years ago himself. I think I remember that prostitutes were involved as well. He is corrupt and he dealt in and used illegal drugs. I think he actually did some prison time over that stunt, then he was elected mayor again. Great city that Washington D.C.. Glad I don’t live there any more.
Dan Winright
February 29, 2020 at 11:29 pm
Otherwise known as lamestream misleadia.
Even the local
GenoB
March 1, 2020 at 4:01 pm
Fake news is one thing , but when fake news is used to damage the credibility of a sitting president, I think it should be punishable by law. Where as the 1st Amendment talks about freedom of the press, it should also say fair and balanced. We should expand the definitions of defamation of character, and slander.
John Sampson
March 4, 2020 at 8:07 pm
I have stopped watching TV news completely and I selectively read printed media. I feel that I can’t believe what passes for “the news” these days. Too much of what is presented as news is “not-so-good fiction”