Published by
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It's bad enough that the GOP propaganda machine has so successfully implanted in the minds of millions of Americans that traditional news outlets are somehow disseminating fake news. The label of “fake” usually accompanies real news that tends to put certain Republicans in an unfavorable light when they do things like subvert democracy or claim an election was stolen when it wasn't. The last thing the news industry needs is to have its biggest print publisher, Gannett, participate in the actual production of fake news. In Illinois, Gannett is accepting money to publish fake newspapers that man…