"The news report only half of what's going on! And if to that you add that the news invent half of what they report, then it follows that the news don't exist!" —Quino
Are you referring to Quino, the cartoonist?
In regard to the above conversation, for my own part I read and listen to multiple news outlets daily, national and international. Most of my information comes from a redundancy between news sources and checking primary sources. If one obscure news outlet says something and the others aren't saying it, it warrants fact checking. Alternatively, it's very interesting that foreign media often do very good reporting on our own domestic American issues which the domestic media fail to giver coverage to (likely intentionally).
I strongly believe that many of the problems we're having aren't due to "fake news" but to the fact that people are often lazy with the information that they consume, and that our educational system doesn't properly teach critical thinking, logic, research skills, and debate (among other skills). It's easy to govern a complacent populace who have little interest in current events, civic affairs, and domestic and international contemporary history. A culture of apathy is runaway and painfully evident at the ballot box: people don't know the issues, don't know the candidates, don't know what the candidates stand for, don't understand (or care) how the issues affect them and others in their communities, and don't believe their vote matters.
I'll abstain from further digression, except to comment that in order to function properly,
democracy must be participatory, and effective participation can not be had in a vacuum of information.