Provide a short paraphrase from the following excerpt, inclu…
Provide a short paraphrase from the following excerpt, including the author’s name in your sentence; this is your second time referencing the author in your writing. Be sure to provide any needed in-text citations, following the guidelines used in our class for Essay Three. Many news editors and reporters maintain that it is impossible to keep personal opinions from influencing the selection and presentation of facts. Yet not all authorities agree with this view. For instance, some believe that news reporters, like everyone else, form impressions of what they see and hear, but a good reporter does not fail to separate opinions from facts. The above-noted excerpt comes from a newspaper article entitled “News and Facts” by Jonathan Smith, a reporter for the New York Times. This excerpt comes from paragraph two of the article.