I think you place the Times in an impossible position. If it's not the responsibility of traditional media organizations to report on the real problem of fake

I think you place the Times in an impossible position. If it's not the responsibility of traditional media organizations to report on the real problem of fake news in social media, then whose responsibility is it? Where else are people going to spread the word about something like that? Face to face? Furthermore, you must realize that the people questioning the veracity traditional media are, by and large, conspiracy theorists with very particular agendas and motives for doing so. The Times also has something that Facebook and the like don't and probably won't -- a hard-earned trust built over a period of decades.