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  3. The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provi

The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provi

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问题     The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, 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 as "local" news, because any event in the international area has a local reaction in terms of our very way of life.
    There is in journalism a widespread view that when you start interpretation, you are entering dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.
    Those who are against interpretation insist that the writer and the editor shall confine himself to the "facts". This insistence raises two questions., what are the facts? And: are bare facts enough?
    As to the first, consider how a so-called "factual" story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts. Then 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 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. This is 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 research resources, their general background, and their "news neutralism", arrive at a conclusion as to the significance of the news.
It is implied in the passage that______.
选项 A、the writer of an article should limit himself to the facts
B、in writing a factual story, the writer must use judgment
C、the writer of an article is usually objective
D、editors usually put economic effects in the first place
答案B
解析 该题是推断题。选项A是与原文相反的信息，是错误的。原文未提及经济方面的话题，选项D也是错误的。根据前两题可知，作者对新闻客观性持否定态度，但并不是指写新闻稿件的作者一般都是客观的，只是人们一般认为新闻应当是客观的，所以选项C是不能从原文推断出来的。根据第三段的内容可得出结论，写事实性的新闻稿件，作者是需要主观判断的，故选B)。
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