We have always had a problem with fake news. Read what Thomas Jefferson said in a letter to John Norvell, 1807:
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time.
These means we have always had fake news in this country.
I found this on page 210 of Lapham's Quarterly, Volume XIII, Number 2, Spring 2020. The issue is labeled "Scandal."
Robert
You might read my earlier post:
Is the Press Our Enemy? July 4, 2017
https://texasascendant.blogspot.com/2017/07/is-press-our-enemy.html
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