mediacide

Committing political suicide or self slander by doing something ruinous and having it picked up by the media and therefore to redefine you as a total loser

Governor Sanford's "Walkin The Appalachians " was mediacide.

Mediacide

The actions taken by news reporting agencies that fail to fact check and verbosely report fake news to the public as real news.

Relates to Partycide when news media only reports the fake press releases from the political party killing itself.

CNN committed mediacide by not checking it's sources and facts.