[detective]

“1. William Duranty reporting on Stalinist Soviet Union
2. Saturday Night Fever Story in New York Magazine by Nik Cohn.
3. Janet Cooke of Washington Post fake story of 8 year old heroin addict.
4. NBC Dateline rigs a General Motors truck to explode.
5. Stephen Glass of the New Republic and other magazines.
6. Jayson Blair of the New York Times.
7. Dan Rather and Mary Mapes fake National Guard story. (Breitbart credits “bloggers” instead of Buckhead and Free Republic.)
8. NBC’s edited George Zimmerman 911 call.
9. NBC’s adventures of Brian Williams.
10. Rolling Stone Rape Hoax.”

Also:

11. Tea Party gun scare articles
12. Fake News fraudulent articles.

[Billthedrill]

You could make a pretty good case that the sinking of the USS Maine that Hearst fanned into an entire war might come under that category as well. I’ll post others as I think of them.