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The newspaper must provide
for the reader the facts; unalloyed, unbiased, objectively selected facts.
However, in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply
interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment
confronting American journalism--to make clear to the reader the problems of the
day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to
recognize that there is no longer any such thing (with the possible exception of
such scribbling as society and club news) as "local" news, because any event in
the international area has a local reaction in manpower draft, in economic
strain, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life.
There is in
journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are
entering wavy and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is
nonsense.
The opponents of interpretation insist that
A. some reporters write news according to their own interest
B. local news has now lost its attraction for its simplicity
C. newspaper readers need easy ways to understand news as well as mere facts
D. international news is more important but less understandable than local news