CNN published articles pushing the narrative that the 50 so called security experts believed Hunter's laptop was fake. It turned out to be true.
CNN also famously had the two reporters standing in the same parking lot pretending to be in different geographic locations. Viewers called out their bullshit when the noticed the exact same traffic driving through the backgrounds of both reporters.
The sets of "news organizations fabricating stuff" and "news organizations generating specific fringe outrage stories for consumption by the administration" are overlapping. Yet those are distinct sets. The outrage-inducing specific stories don't even have to be fabricated. Just not really that important in the grand scheme of things.
CNN published articles pushing the narrative that the 50 so called security experts believed Hunter's laptop was fake. It turned out to be true.
CNN also famously had the two reporters standing in the same parking lot pretending to be in different geographic locations. Viewers called out their bullshit when the noticed the exact same traffic driving through the backgrounds of both reporters.