Going from spin to facts, vagueness to specifics and inferences to full quotes. This is part of what it would take to revive journalism.
Simple, right? In reality, hardly possible in a world where journalism schools have mostly been redesignated schools of communications, which is a completely different and oppositional field of study.
Consider what news writing was intended to be--journaling the occurrences of the day. Keeping a public diary, in a manner of speaking, without personal commentary. "Communicating" emotions and responses to occurrences is what it has become.