Twain invents this character.  He knows the world of journalism and the reading public.  He knows something of bringing sense, when there are so many contrasting voices and confusions, to be impossible, so he invents an outsider who can again see the truth.  Huck Finn.  Whose own voice of questioning actually cuts through it all.  As something we are capable of originally knowing.

Huck Finn could read the news today for what he sees, for what he can ignore, for his moral simplicity.