Must be a nice tidy world where everything is just the media’s fault, except where you admit that they did the thing you are criticizing them for not doing.

Why hasn’t Fox cracked the case, they are a mainstream media company?

A colleague of mine sent me a link to a subreddit when it all started. I completely dismissed it but he insisted I read it. So I had a look and some content of the leaked emails made me feel quite uncomfortable. Of course I didn't believe the code they used actually refered to children, but I couldn't explain what it meant. Also, at that time I had no idea the accompanying instagram images were fake (at laeast some of them), and the people involved deleted/disabled their instagram accounts and suddenly became reticent. I thought I'd just refer my colleague to an online article debunking all this as bs, but I couldn't find any. The whole thing developed over several months, but nobody bothered to treat it seriously. It changed only after the gun incident.

The conspiracy grows faster than the claims can be fact-checked. This isn’t the media’s fault. In fact, conspiracies often use the media de-bunking as more evidence they are correct.

If I invent a claim that I am an alien, it isn’t the media’s fault if a bunch of people believe me. By the time the media can de-bunk my story, I’ve already pivoted to how other aliens have taken over the media and they can’t be trusted.

Yes, I get that. The problem is, with any other topic, the media would readily pick it up and maybe make a big story out of it before it could even bud. However, the email leak was a huge embarassement to the Democrats and hence the mainstream media, whereas Fox could conveniently choose to keep silent on the matter and watch the conspiracy theories grow.

Meanwhile, the Pizzagate article on Wikipedia is still protected.

== However, the email leak was a huge embarassement to the Democrats and hence the mainstream media==

I think I’ve lost the thread, here. Are you suggesting that the media didn’t report on Podesta’s emails?

They did it in quite general terms, and practically omitted all the details that a significant part of the Pizzagate was built on.

So, they didn’t report news that was fake? The same people who call the media “fake news” are now upset that the media didn’t report on actual fake news. Strange times.