One of the many promised posts that I have failed to complete was a full list of the many varieties of “fake news.” I am sorry about that; indeed, I apologize for all of the supposed follow-ups I recklessly announce and never get to. (I know everyone is sick of my bemoaning the fact that I can’t make a living with an ethics blog, and how charging for commentary via substack et. al. would undermine my mission, so I won’t elaborate on THAT again…but boy, could I use a staff). One of the sub-categories of fake news is what I call fake non-news, when major Axis news organizations deliberately bury or hide news stories that would harm The Cause, (or Causes), like turning the U.S. into a European-style socialist nanny state, ensuring that Democrats run the nation in perpetuity, advancing expensive and futile climate-change policies, or cancelling the Second Amendment.

Surely many examples of this breach of journalism ethics leap to mind: Joe Biden’s dementia, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Hillary Clinton’s campaign seeding the Russian Collusion hoax, the Wuhan lab leak source of the pandemic, Biden’s Senate staffer who accused him of rape, and more. There is another one making its non-visibility clear now: This story…

“Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis reportedly has just one month to pay over $54,000 in attorney’s fees, according to court documents. According to a judge’s order, the payment is for violating the state’s Open Records Act. This is the latest development in an open records dispute between Willis’ office and defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant. The judge found that the D.A.’s office had been “openly hostile” to Merchant and handled her open records requests in a manner that “indicates a lack of good faith.” The judge ruled that Willis must also turn over all applicable records within the same 30-day time frame. Merchant was the attorney who filed the motion to disqualify Willis and her office from prosecuting then-former President Donald Trump and his associates for interfering with the 2020 presidential election. Merchant was representing Trump co-defendant Michael Roman when she began looking into a divorce filing by former special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s then-estranged wife, Joycelyn. She discovered information that led her and her client to believe that Willis and Wade might have financially benefited from Wade’s appointment as special prosecutor in the case. As a result of the motion, Wade stepped down from the case after a drama-filled hearing in Fulton County.”

A judge ordering a district attorney to pay over fifty grand is very unusual, but then Fani Willis is an unusual prosecutor, or I least I hope so. She is, you will recall, one of the agents of the Democratic party’s “lawfare” against Donald Trump, as it tried desperately to lock him up before he could be elected President again. All of the cases brought against him were deeply flawed if not illicit, but Willis was, by far, the most incompetent and unethical of the various prosecutors assigned the mission of “Get Trump!” Ethics Alarms covered a lot of the fiasco, beginning when she hired her adulterous love, Nathan Wade, to help with the prosecution. In addition to being unethical, a blatant appearance of impropriety, and absurdly reckless in a high profile case, her mixing business with “ooh baby ooh baby!” was galactically stupid. Nonetheless, the Axis rushed to defend her, as did, most discouragingly, most legal ethicists in an association I belong to, because that group, I have found, is as politicized as the American Bar Association and most of the legal profession generally. I expect an investigation to eventually find that Willis was coordinating her prosecution with the Biden White House.

Willis was kicked off the case as was her lover-boy, Wade, and her unprofessional conduct is a throbbing indictment of the entire lawfare effort. So, naturally, the less the public hears about Fani’s exposure as an unethical, partisan, incompetent hack the better it is for the Left’s faint hopes of rebounding from its 2024 disaster before Taylor Swift is collecting Social Security.

So guess what major U.S. news source has decided that the judge’s order of March 14, 2025 (this is the 18th, you know) is not “fit to print”?