It is said that there is no absolute rule in journalistic writing - only guidelines. And the most common guideline is that a news writer should go out and gather facts, do his research and interview people if needed before he writes his news story. This is also practiced by bloggers and other freelance writers - they write their article stories supported with facts.
In hard news story, the term interpretive news may suggest to a contradiction in terms. Traditionally, news is thought of as objective, with interpretation of the news sent off to the editorials. But recently most journalists have come to believe that absolute objectivity is impossible to achieve. No matter how unbiased a reporter attempts to be, everything he perceives and writes is seen through his own eyes. Every reporter decides to include certain aspects of a story and exclude others, thus interpreting the event.
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