When fake news turns real

The New York Times > Arts > Frank Rich rips into the Gannon story with gusto. Not only does he do a great job at connecting the propaganda dots, he also whips the docile press:

The inability of real journalists to penetrate this White House is not all the White House's fault. The errors of real news organizations have played perfectly into the administration's insidious efforts to blur the boundaries between the fake and the real and thereby demolish the whole notion that there could possibly be an objective and accurate free press. Conservatives, who supposedly deplore post-modernism, are now welcoming in a brave new world in which it's a given that there can be no empirical reality in news, only the reality you want to hear (or they want you to hear). The frequent fecklessness of the Beltway gang does little to penetrate this Washington smokescreen.

Thanks Frank for noting the irony -- conservatives have seized the postmodern day, truth be damned.
In related news, Americablog reports new evidence showing our favorite fake newsman/prostitute Jeff sitting in on White House press briefings before the "news organization" he represented existed on the web. How precisely does a fake reporter get credentialed for a fake news organization that doesn't even exist yet? This story aint over yet.