But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
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In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
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.
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.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.
When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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