Question 54

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

Twitter is not on the masthead of a newspaper. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.

Based on the passage, the writer’s disappointment can be BEST summarised as:

Solution

Options A, B, D, and E are not mentioned or indicated in the paragraph and thus, can be eliminated.

The passage talks about how the newspapers are choosing stories to satisfy the narrowest of audiences instead of putting all the stories from the world for the public to judge.

Thus, option C is the answer.

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