Media narratives inconsistent with the facts

Breitbart:

The year 2019 saw its fair share of viral hoaxes and the spread of false information — just as the previous year had seen.

Take a look at some of the most bizarre hoaxes to have surfaced in 2019, capturing the attention of millions and further sowing division among Americans.

1. Mainstream media falsely reports conservatives are “outraged” over a video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dancing.

By the first week of January, the hoaxes of 2019 had already kicked off, with the mainstream media reporting — without any evidence — that conservatives had become “outraged” over a video of socialist Rep. Ocasio-Cortez dancing in high school. Despite never being given examples of a conservative doing anything more than shrugging the video off, the mainstream media ran with the narrative anyway, prompting Ocasio-Cortez to post another video of herself dancing in front of her congressional office, tweeting: “I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous. Wait till they find out Congresswomen dance too!”

2. BuzzFeed falsely reports that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress in his testimony.

By mid January, BuzzFeed falsely reported that Michael Cohen had told Special Counsel Robert Mueller President Trump personally instructed him to lie to Congress. The report — which cited two unidentified law enforcement officials — was quickly debunked by the special counsel itself, as a spokesperson for Mueller’s office released a statement, clarifying that “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office” regarding Cohen’s testimony “are not accurate.”

Fortunately for the media company, they were able to catch a break, because just a few days later another hoax had surfaced to dominate the news cycle and direct the public’s attention away from BuzzFeed…

3. Covington Catholic High School students were falsely accused of harassing a Native American man by the mainstream media, Hollywood, rookie politicians, (and more).

A group of students from Convington Catholic High School found themselves suddenly being subjected to an onslaught of threats, as well as defamation by celebrities, media outlets, and individual journalists after one student, Nick Sandmann, was seen smiling in a MAGA hat while he and his classmates were being harassed by Black Hebrew Israelites and a Native American man named Nathan Phillips who confronted Sandmann while banging on a drum.

The Covington hoax ended up being multi-pronged, spurring a series of additional hoaxes as the left appeared desperate to find something — anything — to peg these particular high school students as racists. Before you knew it, virtually the entire school was being accused of wearing blackface, and the basketball team was falsely accused of using a “Nazi sign” — but the most prominent hoax to have spawned from the Covington incident had to do with Nathan Phillips himself…

4. Media falsely claims Nathan Phillips served in Vietnam.

Nathan Phillips, the Native American man at the center of the Covington controversy, is not a Vietnam veteran — as his military records show that he did not actually serve in Vietnam — despite numerous accounts in the media saying he did. Even NBC’s Savannah Guthrie was caught spreading fake news with Phillips about his Vietnam claims by misleading Today Show viewers about how he portrayed his service record.

5. “This is MAGA country!”

Just one week after the mainstream media fostered the false narrative surrounding the Covington students, members of Hollywood, as well as establishment media journalists and pundits, moved on to their next hoax by uncritically accepting and promoting an elaborate “hate crime” story by Empire actor Jussie Smollett, who claimed that he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic attack by two men in Chicago who put a rope around his neck, poured bleach on him, and yelled, “This is MAGA country!” as they left.

Later, two Empire extras and brothers of Nigerian descent, “Abel” and “Ola” Osundairo, were detained, as it was discovered that they were likely paid to stage the attack on Smollett, propelling the now-infamous “This is MAGA country” hoax into existence.

6. Mainstream media were caught promoting the Russia collusion hoax for years.
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There is more.

Somehow Chuck Todd overlooked these media fairy tales when he was being critical of conservative media.  These were all significantly more important errors than that Todd was upset about.

The media also got several facts wrong in its early reporting of the shooting at the church in White Settlement, Texas.