And believe it or not, that headline — as breathtaking as it is — might even bury the lede. Fourteen years after the Journolist scandal first exposed progressive narrative journalism as an organized racket, has it re-emerged in a new form? And does it explain the wall-to-wall TRUMP IS HITLER narrative that the mainstream media has amplified for months?
Yesterday, Semafor’s Kadia Goba exposed an effort by a Democrat billionaire megadonor’s top adviser to get the media to spin the assassination attempt on Donald Trump as faked. Dmitri Mehlhorn apparently has mainstream media journalists in his Rolodex, and feels comfortable directing them how to shape the news.
Oh yes, he’s also battier than a belfry:
The top political adviser to Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman suggested that the attack on Donald Trump could have been “staged,” even as Hoffman was criticized for joking before…
