Commentary The recent revelations arising from the Durham probe into the origins of the Russiagate scandal have made it clearer than ever that, when the media fought back against Donald Trump’s charge that they had become the purveyors of “fake news,” they did so at the cost of having proved him right. Not that you would know that if, for some unfathomable reason, you continue to rely on the media themselves for your information. Though the Washington Post has gone back and corrected some details (and omitted some others) in the hundreds of Russiagate stories it ran between 2017 and 2020, it has apologized for or retracted none of them. Nor has any other mainstream media outlet known to me. There may be a reason for this, apart from simple embarrassment. In fact, they don’t appear even to be embarrassed by such a serious mistake—which suggests that it wasn’t really …