[BillF]

What is the term to describe when so called reporters actually create news or a mini scandal and try to call it news?

You mean "yellow journalism?"

Or thinking that most Old Media journalists are "yellow dog Democrats," maybe this should be called "yellow dog Democrat journalism?"

[Grampa Dave]

You may be right.

I know that the socialists so called journalists in Germany did this to help Hitler gain power and stay in power.

This is a name for this faux journalism where the so called reporters create the news that they report on.