Fox News reviews media missteps in 2018.

A new low. Newsweek quotes a single, anonymous tweet as “evidence” that “conservatives” are mocking Rep. Ocasio-Cortez for her collegiate dancing video. No direct quote, no evidence of any sort. A manufactured story to produce a narrative. As ugly a media moment as it gets.

HuffPo chastises us deplorables and then stink-eyes the “Media” for not getting the point on Warren and her ancestry PR stunt. You see, ahem, if you really look at it, ah, it’s not the test (you imbeciles); it’s about the tribes/natives/victims and bringing needed attention to their plight. Didn’t you get her “Heroine” narrative memo?

“Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis.” Exactly. This is the heart, and the real harm of “fake news”. When institutions like the New York Times and Washington Post “report” opinion as fact – everybody loses.

“Any story that doesn’t celebrate him he derides as “fake news”. That seems like, you know, kind of a (major) stretch – don’t you think? If you are Al Hunt, and you are writing an opinion piece about “truth” – how about sticking to it?

Greg Gordon acknowledges that neither he (ahem) nor his sources (double ahem) directly saw the underlying intelligence cited in the report. Gordon relies on the fact his “sources” have been right before. Outrageous. Journalistic malpractice. Where is the outrage?

Paul Mirengoff (Powerline) points to another (losing count) CNN “report” that is, essentially, one monstrous hit piece. One sided, mocking in tone, and politically biased. And critically, extremely negligent factually. This is a banana?

The 4th estate – frog marched down the road to irrelevance by Michael Wolff – slinged so many lies, fake stories, and false narratives in 2018 that one tends to lose count/track. Thanks to the Washington Examiner (cheers!), we have a top 5. Try not to choke on your croissant.

It seems Time Magazine’s Person(‘s) of the a Year, er, wasn’t. The Bezos Bulletin leans (correctly) into the narrative that shand’t be named. Namely, that Khashoggi wasn’t the saint the MSM painted him to be. Shocking.

While full-on TDS is not surprising for a rag like Newsweek, it is certainly more that shocking to see the incredible speed with which the fake is flown. Fortunately, as soon a the fake was exposed, the super MSM scrubbing commenced. Sickening.

Fake business. Fake people. Fake metrics. Fake content. Kudos to NY Mag for addressing the issue most core to its very survival. The Media needs to be its own aggressive police force – its the only way it survives the onslaught of fraud.

From Khashoggi to the Capital Gazette, 2018 was certainly not a friendly year for the 4th estate. Violence is horrible and never the solution. HuffPo reviews the effects, and points their finger at the cause.