We often roll our eyes whenever a new deceit perpetrated by mainstream media is revealed, but the truth is, media bias is a real problem in our society and it needs to be addressed. 

On Thursday evening The New York Times very quietly buried a correction admitting the "seventeen intelligence agencies" that allegedly asserted Russia hacked the presidential election, may not be based in fact after all.  

Newsbusters summarizes: 

The correction was discreetly placed on their website under a 5 day-old article on Trump and Russia by Maggie Haberman called “Trump’s Deflections and Denials on Russia Frustrate Even His Allies.” 

So what did the Times finally admit wasn’t true? That oft-repeated claim that “Seventeen” intelligence agencies assessed that Russia hacked the 2016 presidential election. Here’s what the paper had to say about that:

The correction read:

A White House Memo article on Monday about President Trump’s deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly to the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia orchestrated hacking attacks during last year’s presidential election. The assessment was made by four intelligence agencies — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. The assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the American intelligence community.

As Newsbusters accurately notes, the correction is significant because it is about one of the primary pieces of information upon which the media has predicated its entire onslaught against Trump.

Consider how USA Today published an article back in October with the headline: "Yes, 17 Intelligence Agencies Really Did Say Russia Was Behind Hacking."

Wikileaks and even some left-wing bloggers picked up on the Times correction thusly:

This, my friends, is why Fake News is in fact real.