The medialens article posted at 291 is quite good and deserves some excerpts. I'm glad to see they are back publishing semi-regularly. During the buildup to the Iraq War II I very much appreciated their insights and careful documenting.
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/899-fake-ne...
"As we will discuss below, this should ring loud bells with British readers subjected to a very similar smear campaign targeting Jeremy Corbyn, who was also 'not supposed to win' the Labour Party election leadership.
In 2017, a Guardian leading article commented on Trump and Russia:
'The Guardian view of Trump's Russia links: a lot to go at.'
Another leader in 2017 went much further:
'Meanwhile the grenades he [Trump] lobs via Twitter or interview cloud the issue that still lies at the heart of his presidency: Russian meddling in the US election, and the possible collusion of his own campaign. All other iniquities pale beside this.'
Also in the Guardian in 2017, columnist Paul Mason highlighted 'Kremlin involvement in the Trump campaign' as the key reason 'Trump could be out of office within a year'.
The Telegraph agreed that the 'russiagate' claim 'is the cloud hanging over the entire presidency'.
The press has been filled with numerous similar examples.
Strongly echoing UK experience, Scahill adds:
'We have been subjected to more than two years of nonstop, fact-free assertions and wild theories masquerading as fact, masquerading as insightful analysis.'
A tsunami of 'fake news', in other words, supplied by the very same media who have supplied that other tsunami of warnings on the threat of 'fake news'.
The key word, and the title of Guardian journalist Luke Harding's best-selling book: 'Collusion'. The rest of the book title, unfortunately for Harding: 'How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House' (Guardian Faber Publishing; Main, 2017).
Harding was also lead author of a fake, front-page Guardian claim in November 2018 that Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, had met Julian Assange three times in the Ecuadorian embassy in London."