What's malignant Mr. Bernstein is all the fake news stories that have been put out by news outlets in the name of ratings. We know this because Mr. Zucker told them to do that at one network.  What's malignant is the journalistic fraud being committed by news outlets. If they were attorneys or doctors and did that, review boards would convene to determine punitive action and have their press credentials revoked for unethical behavior. But that won't happen because they would never discipline their own and hence the press has a lower approval rating than Congress and the public despises them.