What do you make of this? "On Jan. 9, The Post reported that then-President Donald Trump, in a call with Georgia’s lead elections investigator, Frances Watson, had instructed her to “find the fraud.” He mentioned that she could become a “national hero,” reported the newspaper. In both cases, the quotes were wrong, as The Post has..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ump-call-georgia-investigator/?outputType=amp
When is the last time you heard of anyone suing a mass media outlet? They sue each other more than anyone else. Bloomberg arrested 26 reporters in one day, only to get a slap on the wrist from Obama, and then declared his intentions to run against Donald Duck, who cut another mass media outlet a deal on their rent. The mass media outlets all declined to sue the man, knowing damned well its impossible to make money suing a billionaire. The more insane the Washington Post acts, the more readers they attract.
The Washington Post is famous for their retractions. You could say the news outlets all specialize. I lived in the DC area, and everyone agrees the Post is overpriced. They're all vultures and hos and, if the Post didn't post retractions, they'd never get anyone's attention.
It confirms your suspicion, that its pure crap they invented just so they could hear themselves talk.
Roughly 80% of Americans ignore anything they believe contradicts common sense and conventional wisdom, despite nobody ever establishing their existence anywhere in the world. There's no such thing as common sense, it doesn't exist. Roughly 80% again, apply their morality to others, but not themselves. They are compulsive liars, while Donald Duck has well over 4,000 blatant lies while in office. They're all lying to themselves and insisting everybody else lie to them as well, and they do.
And my answer explains what to make of it. The post is infamous for making statements they immediately retract, just as a way to sell more papers, because their readers all demand they lie to them.
Commercials don't have to make sense and, in fact, they are often designed to make you curious. Most people don't realize it, but most websites are designed to attract trolls and to make it easy to moderate them, because trolls attract customers. The Post is just smart enough to know their readers are flaming idiots, who will read their retractions and become all excited, because they actually noticed it made no sense.
They're trolling for customers in Virginia, with Lynchburg being roughly a three hour drive from DC, and the namesake of all lynch mobs, and the home of televangelists. All they have to do is give them a reason to buy the next paper.
Fox News is legally entertainment, and two of their own reporters once attempted to sue them for firing them, when they refused to spout a blatant lie on the air concerning an egregious public health hazard. The courts said Fox was perfectly within their right to fire them, because they are entertainment. Currently, even ivy league colleges are lobbying congress to censor the worldwide web, in order to protect the same idiots they teach from themselves, by censoring any fake news and misinformation, but nobody is claiming Fox is fake news, because money decides everything, including what you can say online about money.
Lynch mob mentality escapes modern science, which attempts to categorize them as cults, even when they're half the damned country, because modern science couldn't find their own ass with both hands, and is only good for cheap electronics and expensive medical equipment and weapons. My work includes encouraging the idiots to eat their own fucking teachers alive, exploiting them in every way imaginable, for teaching Darwinian evolution, yet failing to reproduce. Call it a social experiment, to see if the idiots can learn how to use a stupid dictionary.
"When is the last time you heard of anyone suing a mass media outlet?" When Nick Sandman (the Catholic boy the media claimed attacked a native American activist) sued CNN and others for slander against him and won his lawsuit.