Kind of. But the difference tends to be overstated (thanks for that, CP Scott).
An example. I used to edit waterway magazines. We had pages upon pages of news, much like some railway magazines do. Our news was news and our opinion was opinion and never the twain shall meet.
But, of course, our news all came from the starting point that canals were a good thing, because we were a waterway magazine. So when we reported on (say) the restoration and eventual reopening of the Droitwich Canals, inevitably we spent more time on "the A449 underpass has been completed" or "this is going to be the first new staircase lock for N years" or "the first boat for N years has passed through Vines Park". Not, for example, "this is destroying lots of reeds where water voles might live" or "this is resulting in the gentrification of a previously working class settlement" or "this is spending a whole lot of Worcestershire taxpayers' money", all of which would also have been valid impartial news stories. I have no doubt that if you read a story in Floating Water Plantain Preservation Monthly it would have taken a different tack. (Roger Scruton used to write vituperative screeds in the Telegraph about how evil the Cotswold Canals restoration is.)
All news reporting has in-built biases like this. Saying that Carmarthen–Aberystwyth is a no-hoper of a scheme – as many people upthread have done – is an opinion too, not a fact. Granted, it is the prevailing opinion. This prevailing opinion is broadly that benefit:cost ratio is the correct measure of assessing these things, and that a rail reopening with a very poor BCR is therefore not worthwhile. But it's not the only opinion. You could argue that social cohesion would be well served by reopening. You could argue that an exemplar scheme would get people more broadly thinking about their travel choices. They're minority opinions, but they're still valid.
The biggest failing of the BBC IMO is that it tends to internalise the prevailing opinion - it is very small-C conservative. That's its in-built bias, just as our in-built bias as a waterway magazine was "canals are good". So I'm actually quite pleased to see this short, fairly trivial BBC piece on Carmarthen–Aberystwyth. It doesn't make it any more likely that the railway will ever reopen – in fact, it doesn't even mention the possibility. But it's a pleasant surprise to see the BBC making a very slight departure from the single-opinion orthodoxy.
(Personally I think the old trackbed would make a marvellous cycle route, but that's another thread entirely.
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