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The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

— Jesse Ventura

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We report the news. Fox talks about the news.

— Jonathan Klein

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

— Joshua Micah Marshall

In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

— Dan Shechtman

Okay, I'm not in the news business, and I'm not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it'd be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there's evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.

— Craig Newmark

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.

— Steve Erickson

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

— Serge Schmemann

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

— Val Kilmer

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

— Jim Lehrer

✗Opposing Perspectives

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.

— Derek Cianfrance