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VOTE: The 2017 Horace Greeley Award for Best Fake News Journalist

If you’ve been following this year’s Fake News Final Four at 21WIRE, you will have also heard about the prestigious award for the best individual fake news journalist or media personality, because to call some of these people journalists would be inappropriate.
Here are the Top 10 finalist nominees for the first annual Horace Greeley Award for Outstanding Work in Fake News Journalism…

Western Media’s #FakeNews in Syria is ‘Call Center Journalism’

21st Century Wire says…
More than ever, it is important that we continually highlight how western corporate media outlets, including the most respected brands in western mainstream media, like CNN, the BBC, AFP, the New York Times and others – have been the driving force behind some of most deceptive reporting and a militaristic propaganda campaign which has targeted Syria and its ally Russia.

More Fake News: Western Media Blames Russia for Deadly US Airstrike on Mosque in Syria

21st Century Wire says…
The Western mainstream media continue their intentional and highly concerted, and coordinated effort to run fake news about events in Syria, and in other conflict areas too. 
Here is just the latest of many documented examples of this practice of deception which western media outlets have been running about Syria since the conflict began in 2011…

What?! John McCain says Rand Paul is “Working for Putin”

21st Century Wire says…
The fake news continues.
Today, John McCain accused Rand Paul of “working for Putin”, because he objected to the expansion of NATO via the membership of Montenegro.
In the following video, Stuart J. Hooper examines the other nefarious activities John McCain has been involved with and asks why anybody in their right mind would still vote for him?

MSNBC #FakeNews Fail: Desperate Rachel Maddow Springs Trump’s Tax Trap

This was Rachel Maddow’s Geraldo Rivera moment. 
On Tuesday night the shrill MSNBC host baited audiences with an extended monologue, where she could be seen wringing her hands in anticipation of ‘the big one’ – a scene of hype and overindulgence by the media which was reminiscent of Geraldo Rivera’ epic flop, Al Capone’s Vaults which aired back in 1986.
What followed was almost too ridiculous to comment on. This was mainstream media fake news at its absolute finest.