Denzel Washington Blasts the Media on Dishonesty and Fake News

He was at the center of a fake news story, but Denzel Washington says it s the mainstream media that s selling you don t read the newspaper, you re uninformed. If you do read it, you re misinformed, Washington, the star and director behind the new film Fences, told ITK at the Wednesday premiere inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Fences, based on an awardwinning play of the same name, also features Viola Davis and centers on the life of a black family in 1950s Pittsburgh. It is set to be released on Christmas. Washington was the subject of a phony story earlier this year that falsely claimed he was switching his support of thenDemocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to GOP White House hopeful Donald Trump. One of the effects of too much information, the 61yearold Oscar winner says, is the need to be first, not even to be true So w