COMMENTARY_ Vanity Hit’s two-part, dangerous fiction factory (Peter Navarro - THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Vanity Hit’s two-part, dangerous fiction factory

This isn't journalism

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles listens during a cabinet meeting at the White House, April 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) more >

COMMENTARY

By Peter Navarro - Wednesday, December 17, 2025

OPINION:

Taken together, parts one and two of “Vanity Hit”’s Susie Wiles profile are not journalism. They are a case study in how legacy media manufactures menace — by stitching conjecture to caricature, insinuation to innuendo, and then calling the resulting collage an “exclusive.”

What Vanity Hit delivers across these two installments is not an investigation grounded in evidence, but a prolonged exercise in narrative escalation that is irresponsible, misleading and dangerous.

The method is consistent from the opening line to the final paragraph. The reader is primed to fear before being asked to think. “Power and peril” is not a neutral frame; it is a verdict rendered in advance. From there, the pieces deploy a familiar arsenal: adjectives standing in for proof (“brutal,” “sketchy,” “chaotic”), anonymous consensus replacing sourcing (“many have called,” “critics say”) and hypotheticals elevated to headline status. This is not how facts are established. It is how outrage is curated.

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