You have no concept of reality. OANN is the only news network I trust and you can pound your head between two rocks, not that you would even notice.
1. I accuse them of lies because they lied. Whether I agree with the story or not doesn't make a lie true.
2. Can you point to any examples where I defended the "the actions self appointed arbiters of numerous fake news agencies spreading lies and yellow journalism sensationalist filth."? Just one or two will do. No need for a long list.
3. If you trust OANN, then your trusting heart will beat strong and sure as you click on the New England Journal of Medicine article here:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387
And look for the place where it says " Fauci conceded COVID-19’s death rate was twice that of the common flu, making it roughly 0.28 percent."
If you're in a hurry, just CTRL F and search for "twice" and ".28". WHen you find them both, your faith in OANN will be magnified tenfold.
Then page down to the bottom, where you won't see anything like the following:
This editorial was published on February 28, 2020, at NEJM.org.
because if you saw that, why then these comments wouldn't be "his latest comments" and then they wouldn't "mark a major about-face for Fauci" and the whole article would become (for better or for worse depending on whether you agree with it):
Fake News.
Sorry about the rocks though.
This is from the cited article
This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968)...And OANN just editorially added the .28% which is the official fatality percentages of those two pandemics.
So, not a lie, just good reporting although perhaps a slight bit over your head.