Wrong. Ruth Marcus has never had a mind to begin with.
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Jim Geraghty of National Review offers a nice run down of “fake news” in his morning newsletter:
Or ask Brian Williams about his war stories. Or ask Rolling Stone about those ritualistic gang rapes on the University of Virginia’s campus.
We haven’t seen anything like this “fake news” on social media since… Katie Couric’s blatantly misleading editing in her documentary, Under the Gun.
Or Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke’s fictional 8-year-old heroin addict.
Or the tall tales of Jayson Blair at the New York Times.
Or USA Today’s Jack Kelley’s wild tales from abroad.
Or Stephen Glass’s New Republic reporting on the hacking of “Jukt Microtics.”
Or Jonah Lehrer’s made-up quotes from Bob Dylan.
Or those Research 2000 polls that may or may not have been conducted.
Or the trucks rigged to explode on NBC’s Dateline.
The false accusations against the pizzeria are abominable but not unprecedented: just ask the Duke lacrosse team, Richard Jewell, Ted Stevens, and the Central Park Five.