Eric, your comment essentially echoes my own, in that they just won’t question stories coming their way that fit their narrative. And they bury the corrections.

To ‘Political Satire’ and Mike, most of what you see on Fox that you don’t see elsewhere are the stories that don’t fit the aforementioned narrative. Yes, Fox News leans right, but ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN lean farther to the left, but no comments about them, eh? (I will note that CNN has worked to correct this, especially in this presidential election season. Kudos to them.)

So then, to address your point that I may be assigning too much strategy to this, the question becomes; does the MSM simply get fooled because they are more, in general, sympathetic to the cause the fake news is coming from, or is it an intentional strategy (and has it always been) that they just don’t ask as many questions in those cases? One can only plead ignorance so many times before it begins to look like a strategy. No, they probably don’t have an arrangement with the Palestinian Authority, but playing their useful idiot is just as much a strategy as if they did.

I think you’re assigning too much strategic thought to the MSM by claiming that they’re playing “more heavily to its biases in order to keep it core constituency” … as far as I can see, they’re simply struggling to play catch-up and decise how best to respond to this new world.