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With all the headlines about “fake news,” the liberal media elite don’t have a perfect track record, either. Reporter Jayson Blair concocted stories for the New York Times back in 2003, while Stephen Glass fabricated numerous pieces for The New Republic in the late 1990s. The most notorious scam of this sort was the 1980 front-page Washington Post article by reporter Janet Cooke headlined “Jimmy’s World: 8-Year-Old Heroin Addict Lives for a Fix.”

Donald Clarke: A class of dull pedantry seems to have taken over in the production office

It's not the most conspicuous sign in the world, but there's now a permanent historical marker next to the Rosslyn garage in which Mark "Deep Throat" Felt met up with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward to discuss the Watergate scandal. The text of the marker describes how the nondescript garage at N. Nash Street and

<p>&quot;The history we learned was a lie, and it was a deliberate lie, one that had been debunked in 1900 by scholars at Yale and in Chicago. But the people of the Pacific Northwest, despite all evidence to the contrary, had clung to a story that was baloney. That&#39;s what hooked me.&quot;</p>

Site could be demolished as part of new development project 51 years after the Watergate burglary