Herodotus had a lot of facts, but only used facts from the side that he was on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/opinion/04klitzman.html?ref=sept112001
This is entirely on the girl's side.
Thucydides had less information, but it was for both sides.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/us/01gitmo.html?_r=1&ref=sept112001
He put general facts about what happened, but didn't pick his own side.
I think it would be a bit clearer if you explained that Herodotus tended to present all of the stories he heard, while Thucydides was much more exclusive in the material he allowed into his histories.
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