No, you're right. What started as a small, humourous concession to the possibility of straight up news falls apart on analysis. But its failure supports my main

No, you're right. What started as a small, humourous concession to the possibility of straight up news falls apart on analysis. But its failure supports my main point pretty well. If sports scores are contentious claims aspiring to the status of fact, then what of wars and elections? The only "fact" is that they are published in newspapers.