Do it Q!
(Tried to screencap the McClatchey correspondence string reference by the Brit Hume tweet quoted by Q, but was not able to. Must read, the whole thing, bottom to top. Tremendous insight into fake news tactics.)
Note: I experienced the same kind of "journalistic non-ethics" in a professional position with bigcompany where for a couple of years I provided interviews to reporters. The reporters would have their story made up in advance. They would talk to me only to "check mark" that they had done so, and if possible to elicit a quote they could attribute to bigcompany that would buttress their pre-written, negative, narrative.
I finally gave up talking to reporters, but logged permanent mental notes of the tactics and the reporters and papers who were doing it. I still remember them to this day, a couple of decades later.