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  3. The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted(不歪曲的), objectively selected facts. But in the days of

The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted(不歪曲的), objectively selected facts. But in the days of

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问题     The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted(不歪曲的), objectively selected facts. But in the 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 the there is no longer any such thing as "local" news, bemuse 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 dangerous waters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.
    The opponents of 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 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 an important decision bemuse many readers do not proceed beyond the first paragraph.) This is Judgments Number Two. Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on page one, where it has larger 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 research resources, 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, are 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(支持) his particular plea. Or he can do it by the play when he gives a story promoting it to page one or demoting it to page thirty.
选项 A、Interpreting the News
B、Everything Counts
C、Subjective Versus Objective Processes
D、Choosing Facts
答案A
解析 主旨题。题意为"这篇文章的最佳标题为______"。本文首先指出一些人对解释新闻持批评态度，接着对这些人的观点进行批驳，最后阐述解说新闻领域和提供新闻内容一样都是客观过程。因此选项"解释新闻"是答案。
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