In Reinventing America , the issues were real. Budgetary numbers were real. But the news stories in the News of the Nation are not true.
Similar rules apply to organizations.
If we attributed something to the AARP, we were talking about the real-world organization, and whatever we said was intended to be factual. Most of the people and organizations who appeared in our news stories, however, are fictional. They're fictional precisely so they could say what we needed them to say for the sake of a good story. We even ran newsphotographs featuring many of them.