This, in a sense, is Donald Trump's fault. He is so good at controlling the conversation; his bombastic style demands a response; this is the same style you're using in your posts, and it has successfully redirected the discussion. It doesn't matter whether you're right; the topic has now changed.
This doesn't get things back on topic. Though, it took minimal effort to find instances of Salon running ridiculous reports. [0]
Here the real problem: these companies can't get their hands on content fast enough. WaPo produces 500 articles/day and 1200 items/day. AFAIK, because there's no real punishment for quasi-spurious claims, there's no incentive to spend marginal time vetting sources. Today, the story can be shared 100K times in the time a retraction takes place. But by then, the damage has been done, and again, the punishment isn't material. I don't think a retraction fully undoes the damage of spurious reporting.
[0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/23/salon_trut...
Hence the problem. It is, it's not rocket science this is true.
But AI or not you seem like you won't change your mind. This is what the right thinks about Fox.
I gave evidence from a 2011 article that has a number of links describing how he was involved in things in the 70s that would make someone call him a racist.