One of the best examples of the media pre-empting events and cooking the books was the 2016 election where stories were written about Hilary Clinton winning the US election. Then at the last moment the stories had to be pulled, as Donald Trump won. They did not get the memo. Now, the same cooking of the books has occurred with reports of major British media outlets having stories ready to go, claiming that Russia was responsible for a dirty nuclear bomb incident. Only, no such incident occurred. British journalist and Daily Mail correspondent Martin Jay called these journalists "morally bankrupt cretins," who will not miss the opportunity to immediately attribute an attack against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to Russia. "They have been preparing their readers for this, as long back as the Nova Kakhovka dam attack just weeks ago, where they wove into the call center journalism, copy warnings that there would soon be an attack on a nuclear power plant by the Russians," wrote Jay.
The British press seem to forget that Russia has already threaten to reduce the UK to radioactive rubble, or bury it under a tsunami of radioactive water.