>>It's become almost impossible to get "hard news" from TV networks. It's mainly talking heads opining.

That is the origin of the "fake news" label. It's an accurate protest at the behavior of corporate media that no longer serves as a pillar of democracy.

>>The NYT once did a pretty good job of separating hard news and opinion, but since Trump's election they've also slipped in that regard, so I have to hunt around occasionally to find out what happened, rather than what someone thinks about what happened.

Yep. You have to go to source. Problem is that busy people don't have time for hours of repetitive droning (or even for a few seconds of speech in Charlottesville it seems) so the betrayal by corporate media is a double-whammy.

>>So, as you say "fake news" has come to mean something said by a talking head whose opinion differs from yours.

You can say that, but I'm saying it's a protest at venal dishonest behavior by corporate media. If the accurate label offends - that's a story in itself.

>>The problem here is that Trump uses "fake news" to question facts, not opinion.

Can you name one such fact? Not a challenge, a serious question.