The MSM's role in #faknews

Ace of Spades wonders why the MSM is so guillable when it comes to fake stories about hate crimes perpetrated by Trump supporters, while blinded by actual ones committed against them:

And we're closing in on at least twenty incidences of Socially Conscious Hoax Crimes now. John Sexton runs down some recent ones, including a three revealed as hoaxes just today alone.  

Remember the story about swastikas and one "KKK" message being spray-painted on Long Island university buildings? Widely attributed to "Trump's followers." Hoax -- the perp has been arrested, and he's Pakistani. Oh I guess the crime is real enough, and the guy is probably anti-semitic. But it has no relationship to the phantasmal "Trump Voters on Hate Rampage" Narrative.

Remember the black church that was burned down, with "VOTE TRUMP" scrawled nearby in case any one missed the likely motive? Again, a race-based hoax -- the arson was real enough, but the perp was black and a member of the church itself. The "VOTE TRUMP" graffiti was intended to either disguise his hand and his motive, or to play into the media's "Trump's Cycle of Violence" storyline.

And as John Sexton highlights, a Michigan student claimed that Trump supporter tried to yank off her hijab and threatened to set her on fire. The police categorized that "hate crime" as "ethnic intimidation," but they now categorize it as "filing a false police report." They're hiding the woman's identity -- as Glenn Reynolds often notes, the media and politicized law enforcement brass continues treating known hoaxsters as genuine victims, concealing their identity as if they'd actually been raped, threatened or assaulted, even after they are formally charged with filing a false police report.

That's three events in a day -- and I'm not even getting into things that just happened days or a week ago. But the media, pretending to be on a crusade against Fake News, gleefully reports these false claims when they're made and then gets very quiet indeed about publicizing the finding that they were fake news all along.

How can the MSM lead the crusade against #fakenews while being one of the biggest offenders? I don't know, but it does make them seem a bit disingenuous.