"While you might not directly read all of the local news sources, or The New York Times or The Washington Post, much of the “news” you get each day actually is based upon the work of those journalists or is a response to that work."

And that is precisely the problem.  Rather than calling it "fake news," I would call what the so-called mainstream news sources do  as "faking news."  Like ""hands up, don't shoot" which has led to the murder of police officers.  Or "a video caused Bengazi."
George Zimmerman was a "white" Hispanic.  NBC edited the 911 call in that case to make it appear that Zimmerman immediately identified Trevon Martin as black rather than in response to the 911 oeprator at the end of his call.  Recall that NBC blew up a pickup truck on Dateline in order to fake a story aout the truck's safety.

No wonder people are skeptical of what we see in the newspapers and other media.