Last time, we looked in detail<\/a> at how a press release from The Satanic Temple takes advantage first of weak local journalists and their editors by offering a compelling conflict narrative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This makes a story easy to cover \u201cboth sides\u201d of and meets the minimum standards of objectivity. We showed how this simple, facile framework leads to a story that can be turned around quickly and neatly without any deeper questions pursued, and we showed how this tidy \u201cman-bites-dog\u201d Satanist story then works its way through each step of the rightwing media ecosystem, something that justifies further coverage by increasingly prominent \u201cstraight\u201d news outfits as well as liberals and leftists looking to dunk on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This time we\u2019re not going to go through this process again in the same way, but we are going to examine how pernicious the effect is when no one bothers to actually fact-check an organization that started out in 2013 by lying to the media<\/a> and just never stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n