FireFox - 

If you don't recognize that Tabatha Southey is a columnist, not a reporter, then you've failed in your role as a consumer of media.  You have a role too - to consider the source of anything you read.  Before we blame 'fake news', perhaps we should consider 'idiotic readers' whom don't bother to check the source and nature of whatever he or she is reading.

Southey's writings are commentary.  Clearly and plainly.

Do you also mistake the comics as journalism?  Are you upset with Dilbert, Andy Cap, and Garfield too?