This is from the “nation”, a radical insane leftist marxist rag published by a completely mentally incompetent Katrina vanden Heuvel.
What the article really shows is that the author has complete contempt for those who share his/her point of view. The author believes that his audience is completely ignorant and will make no attempt to verify his/her outrageous claims.
[The Nation's founding]...stated mission "...and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred"
Methinks they've lost their way. Probably after the first issue in the 1800s.