text: So do most real journalists like Seymour Hersch and Robert Parry.  Unfortunately, journalism in 2016 is mostly just fake news.  Real investigative journalists are confined to "alternative" media, which the mainstream media, primary sources of fake news, call "fake news."  
  
  Imagine that, a real investigative journalist like Robert Parry, who broke the Iran-Contra affair, branded by the Washington Post as "fake news."  You can't make this stuff up lol!  They must be projecting.  
  
  What's really happening is that mainstream publications are dying, being primarily staffed by fresh journalism graduates who don't really know what they're doing.  The real journalists are gravitating toward alternative media where they are still free to report the truth without corporate censorship.  The allure of political influence is too great for the fake journalists to resist, so they no longer care about reporting the truth.  That's why they produce fake news, and accuse everyone else of doing the same.