The project of smearing 200 websites with one broad brush wouldn't have gotten far without the avid complicity of high-profile media outlets, starting with the Post. The Post did not name any of the sites on PropOrNot's list of organizations that it said had -- wittingly or unwittingly -- published or echoed Russian propaganda. The Post reviewed PropOrNot's findings and our questions about them were answered satisfactorily during the course of multiple interviews." So far The New Yorker has been the largest media outlet to directly confront the Post's egregious story. A sampling of the cheers from prominent journalists and liberal partisans was published by FAIR.org under the apt headline "Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited 'Fake News' Blacklist?"

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2016 08:25 UTC