The very fact that Pallyweid industry resorted to post a series of a few sick children to shock the world shows how desperate but also how bold the industry of lies (as Ben Yemini described Haaretz) has become.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Daher
He went so far to dig up dead children and put them at sites that had been bombed by the Israeli's.
This goes all the way back to the 1890s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
IMHO, with a numb and more ignorant audience (those buying and reading the papers in the past were far more discerning), a much faster media cycle, it's far worse today. Our so called “news” is largely political or commercial advertising pretending to be news, the consequence of a “free” news media.