Add the NYC/Amazon story to news that disappeared quickly after filling the airwaves for months; here in the NYC metro area they aired interviews the evening of the decision (Valentine’s Day), and even opponents were shocked by the outcome (they seem to have believed Amazon would just “get right” and pay up). After showing downtrodden business owners and residents in a blighted area, they must have realized the whole thing had backfired and would only hurt the radical activists. The story died VERY quickly - as though the whole incident had never occurred.
Fake news isn’t just the lies they report as truths; it is also the truths they WON’T report - going all the way back as far as Monica’s stained dress. Matt Drudge broke the story because he was disgusted that “mainstream” networks knew the truth but decided we “didn’t need to know”...
I wish I knew who to attribute this to, but as I once heard someone observe that the #2 job of the media is to promote the stories they want you to know about. Their #1 job is to suppress the stories they’d rather you not know about.