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TeacherJapan Posted 10 years ago
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Which would you choose?
Q: Chooose the most suitable answer from those below to complete the following sentence.
When the writer wrote that news articles in the Star should not include reporters' opinions, some readers ( A ).
(a) claimed that newspapers should report the news without prejudice.
(b) doubted if the truth was told in the Star
(c) questioned whether news reporting in the star reflected the publisher's values.
(d) responded favorably to the writer
(e) wrote in support of the fact that liberal values had long been held by the Star.
The answer is supposed to be (b). But I am not quite persuaded... Could you teach me why the answer is (b) in this case?
<This is the article>
Journalists make many thousands of choices every day in reporting, writing and presenting the news. What a newspaper decides to report on, what it decides to highlight on its front page, who a journalist decides to talk to and how the facts are presented invariably reflect the value judgements of the value judgements of the newspaper and its journalists.
Last week, I wrote that news articles in the Star should not include reporters' opinions. Several readers responded to that with questions about whether news reporting in this newspaper is "slanted" to reflect this newspaper's long-held values as established byt he Star's legendary publisher, Joseph Atkinson.
When the writer wrote that news articles in the Star should not include reporters' opinions, some readers ( A ).
(a) claimed that newspapers should report the news without prejudice.
(b) doubted if the truth was told in the Star
(c) questioned whether news reporting in the star reflected the publisher's values.
(d) responded favorably to the writer
(e) wrote in support of the fact that liberal values had long been held by the Star.
The answer is supposed to be (b). But I am not quite persuaded... Could you teach me why the answer is (b) in this case?
<This is the article>
Journalists make many thousands of choices every day in reporting, writing and presenting the news. What a newspaper decides to report on, what it decides to highlight on its front page, who a journalist decides to talk to and how the facts are presented invariably reflect the value judgements of the value judgements of the newspaper and its journalists.
Last week, I wrote that news articles in the Star should not include reporters' opinions. Several readers responded to that with questions about whether news reporting in this newspaper is "slanted" to reflect this newspaper's long-held values as established byt he Star's legendary publisher, Joseph Atkinson.
Top answer
The reader's letters were critical of the journalist's statement, so ( d) is eliminated. The journalist did not support the idea of "slanted" reporting, so ( e) is eliminated. The reader's letters assumed that the news was slanted to the liberal side, but did not state their own opinion about it, so ( a) and ( c) are eliminated.
- The reader's letters were critical of the journalist's statement, so ( d) is eliminated.
- The journalist did not support the idea of "slanted" reporting, so ( e) is eliminated.
- The reader's letters assumed that the news was slanted to the liberal side, but did not state their own opinion about it, so ( a) and ( c) are eliminated.
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The reader's letters were critical of the journalist's statement, so ( d) is eliminated.
The journalist did not support the idea of "slanted" reporting, so ( e) is eliminated.
The reader's letters assumed that the news was slanted to the liberal side, but did not state their own opinion about it, so ( a) and ( c) are eliminated.
The journalist did not support the idea of "slanted" reporting, so ( e) is eliminated.
The reader's letters assumed that the news was slanted to the liberal side, but did not state their own opinion about it, so ( a) and ( c) are eliminated.
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