I'd have to amend the subhead to "Part of the truth about fake news." Yes, the government and special-interest groups plant stories, and consumers may never know they're not "real." And the kind of obvious fake news of supermarket tabloids has a long and storied history. But there's a more insidious fake Love never mentions--but I've seen firsthand. That is the reporter who shows up with a story to cover--arranged before he or she did any coverage. Just this morning I saw a blog post that repeated the oft-told media story that Dean volunteers in Iowa in 2004 had were "green-haired weirdos." You can't imagine how many times I read and heard that. But I was there. I was one of those volunteers. And it simply wasn't true. Not even close. Every reporter asked about Dean's anger. I'd been seeing the man at one appearance after another, shook his hand, talked to him, and a friend was on staff with the campaign. Never saw it, not once. I was there for the famous "scream" on caucus night. Electronic trickery. But, even after the networks admitted the edit (taking out all 3,500 of us screaming so loud that Dean was actually 1) yelling back and, 2) trying to be heard over us), everybody still believes it. Why shouldn't they? They saw it on TV 900 times before the retraction (which received far less coverage, of course). I could go on because there's more. But I'm sure you get the picture. The news is not the same as the truth. And this piece just scratches the surface of why and how.