The New York Times does not make up fake news. Not a lot, and not a little. They would be held to account if they did.
I believe that is a bit of a stretch. IMO, it will not help your argument, and may in fact hurt it.
Okay, give three examples of when the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post published blatant lies attributed to experts, and yet the experts did not complain and nothing was done. I do not think you can come up with even one example.
Note carefully, I am not saying that experts never lie, or that major newspapers are never wrong. That is a different argument. Bush administration figures lied when they said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The major newspapers reported this without questioning it. They also reported the expert opinion of the U.N. weapons inspector who said there were no WMD. In no case did they ascribe to any expert a statement or an opinion that expert did not hold.