Word: factual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collectors are governed accordingly. If any big movement takes place, such as the French occupation of the Ruhr, the foreign correspondents are less concerned with fact-gathering than they are with construing the importance and probable effect of what occurs. The function of a correspondent is to write a factual narrative of events coupled with pertinent comment from others; in no sense should his despatches infringe on the sacred domain of the editorial writer. It is because of this fact that the European news in American journals is so often contradictory...