The newspeak issue you raise is precisely my issue with it. There are many "news" factories that unfortunately I think may influence impressionable, confused or elderly readers with the trappings of mainstream news, but these are usually easy to weed out due to the bombastic/extreme nature of their headlines: "Obama's Birth Certificate Found to be in Possession of an Al Qaeda Affiliate", or similar is the sort of headline to look out for. We should let people judge the veracity/reputability of such outlets for themselves, however. This is what K-12 education theoretically equips citizens to do.

But labeling news with dissenting views, even if considered repugnant to some readers, is incredibly dangerous. I really am glad someone else is seeing this rhetoric for what it is: truly Orwellian. The label seems to be getting applied recently on ideological grounds not necessarily to the outright fabricators. Terms like white supremacist and bigot tend to follow the accusation of fake news, but the term may well spread to become a tool across the political spectrum, which would only serve to devolve political discourse even further... Great!