Walter Duranty the Godfather of fake news. The Times later employed Herb Matthews another communist sympathizer who ran cover for Fidel.
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How things haven’t changed.
“Walter Duranty the Godfather of fake news. The Times later employed Herb Matthews another communist sympathizer who ran cover for Fidel.”
While I won’t disagree that Duranty was a scumbag who deserved to have his awards revoked instead of kept on (and the NYT wasted a very good opportunity to do so when it came), he unfortunately wasn’t the Godfather of fake news. That title is reserved strictly for Walter Lippmann, who wrote Public Opinion and thus literally wrote the entire concept out for everyone to follow. And that’s just going by America. You could argue the French Philosophes were the true godfathers of fake news with how they ended up hijacking France’s Education System and spewing lies via their Encyclopedie to gin up a lynching against Christians via the Jacobins.