Hawke wrote:

However, the Times article was stating
a statistic that it has the references for.

No YOU assume they have the references for it, but you don't know they
have them.

So it was publishing a fact.

OR their opinion of how they interpret the statistics they have.


Their idea of "benefit" might not agree with mine, or yours, or
Georges. That doesn't make their statement a "fact"

jk