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请阅读Passagel 完成第小题。Thenewspapermustprovideforthereaderthefact

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请阅读Passage l,完成第小题。
The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, pure, objective 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 manpower floating, in economic pressure, 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 question, consider how a so-called "factual" story comes about. The reporter collects, say, fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space 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. 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 play he gives a story——promoting it to page one or dragging it to page thirty.
Why does the author say the interpretation is the most important assignment confronting American journalism? 查看材料
A. Because the interpretation tells the reader that they are reading international news.
B. Because with the help of the interpretation, readers can have better understanding of the news.
C. Because good interpretations can arouse more reaction from the readers.
D. Because without interpretation, local news won"t exist anymore.
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