They don't want to directly lie. There may be potential libel issues with that, plus they want to keep their micro-thin veneer of being objective when they are really the propaganda arm for the socialists. So when they want to spread a lie they quote someone telling the lie and just don't offer any counter opinion.
Recent example. Nancy Pelosi saying that if the Dems 'give in' and fund 200 miles of border wall at 0.15% of the federal budget Trump could shut the government down any time to get his way. Pelosi may be so old and demented she no longer remembers that this partial shutdown can only happen by the president refusing to sign an appropriations bill that does not fund a common sense border security addition. Once the bill is passed government can not be shut down until all those appropriated funds are spent. Now Nancy may be too addled to know this anymore but surely some producer in the local news rooms knows this. But they think this lie advances their socialist cause so they don't air anyone explaining basic civics, just Nancy's silly lie.
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