Listeners will likely know by now, that the late February story,
complete with vivid video footage, about the forces of elected Venezuelan President
Nicolás Maduro burning trucks that were trying to bring the besieged country food and
medicine was false. Weeks later, the New York Times ( 3/10/19) reported that the humanitarian trucks were not set on fire by
Maduro’s forces, but instead by anti-Maduro protestors who threw a Molotov cocktail. The
Times outlined how the fake story took root, passing from US officials to
media that simply reported their claims as fact with no investigation—and does any of this
sound familiar?