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  3. The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, obj

The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, obj

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问题   The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts. This is the most important assignment confronting American journalism -- to make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that there is no longer any such thing (with the possible exception of such scribbling as society and club news) as "local" news, because any event in the international area has a local reaction in manpower draft, in economic strain, in terms, indeed, of our very way of life.
  There is in journalism a widespread view that when you embark on interpretation, you are entering choppy and dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.
  The opponents of interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall confine themselves to the "facts". This insistence raises two questions: what are the facts? And: are the bare facts enough?
As to the first query, consider how a so-called "factual" story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space allotment being necessarily restricted, he selects the ten, which he considers most important. This is Judgment Number One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shall constitute the lead of the piece. This is important decision because many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph. This is Judgment Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has a large impact, or on page twenty-four, where it has little. Judgment Number Three.
  Thus, in the presentation of a so-called "factual" or "objective" story, at least three judgments are involved. And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved in interpretation, in which reporter and editor, calling upon their general background, and their "news neutralism", arrive at a conclusion as to the significance of the news.
  The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, axe both objective rather than subjective processes -- as objective, that is, as any human being can be. (Note in passing: even though complete objectivity can never be achieved, nevertheless the ideal must always be the beacon on the murky news channels.) If an editor is intent on slanting the news, he can do it in other ways and more effectively than by interpretation. He can do it by the selection of those facts that prop up his particular plea. Or he can do it by the pay he gives a story -- promoting it to page one or demoting it to page thirty.  [br] It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
选项 A、news of local areas will no longer be reported
B、interpretation of news always involves editor’s bias
C、American journalism is in lack of objectivity
D、there is a higher requirement for the content of news today
答案 D
解析 推断题。第一段第二句提到，现在的新闻必须提供更多的内容，必须提供对事实的解释；第三句提到，美国新闻业面临的最重要的任务是让读者清楚当今的问题，使国际新闻和社区新闻一样容易理解，意识到不再有所谓的“地方”新闻，因为国际事件都会有地方影响，由此推断，当今对新闻内容的要求更高了，所以D正确。
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