The failing Fairfax newspapers are obsessed by evil, wicked, right-wing, racist, Trump-loving “fake news” — obsessed to RUOK? levels.

Unless, of course, it’s fake news that suits the agendas of the supposedly “Independent Always” chain.

There’s no need to rehash the story here about how one poster in a Melbourne laneway allegedly spotted by a friend of a gay activist lead to reports the city’s walls had been plastered with homophobic hate-sheets — to such an extent that Channel 10 had to fake up an example.