It is often said that we live in "post-truth" times, as if misinformation and disinformation are an innovation of the internet age.

The people who bend reality to fit ideology have been around for decades - for centuries - and they play the long game.

One of the most popular and long-running TV series in US history premiered in 1974.

Little House on the Prairie was a big slice of sweet American apple pie.

But sometimes sugar is for covering-up something rotten...