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In the era of "Fake News", does omission count?

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His wife is not only the daughter of William D. Sanders, aka the Warren Buffet of real estate, Cockburn can reveal she is the only daughter. Sanders’s portfolio is valued at about $20 billion.

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A Yahoo profile of O’Rourke described how he ‘married Amy Sanders, a charter school administrator,’ and served on the City Council ‘championing downtown redevelopment.’ But the reporter didn’t bother to look into who Sanders’s father was.

Neither did this Guardian piece.

Or this Washington Post one.

Nor this one in Vanity Fair.

TIME magazine were agog as the congressman cooed, ‘I just want to be as raw and direct and real as I can — and it seems to be working.’

And GQ were content to focus on other members of his family.

'Liberal Media Casts Liberal Politician In Good Light' [By omitting things people won't like.]

Why is anyone surprised?