Even the fairest and most impartialnewspaper is a medium of propaganda. Every da

Even the fairest and most impartial（不偏袒的）newspaper is a medium of propaganda（宣传）. Every daily newspaper has an editorial page. Here opinion is expressed on events and personalities in the news. But editorial judgment is so persuasively presented that many people accept these opinions as facts. Good journalists uphold a code of ethics which distinguishes between news and editorial opinions. This code holds that in an editorial column the publisher is entitled to advocate any cause he chooses. It is understood that there he is speaking as a partisan（党人）and may express any view he desires. Because a modern newspaper is so expensive to produce and so costly to establish, newspapers have increasingly become big business organizations. Although there are exceptions, these large newspapers tend to reflect the views of their owners in their editorials on economic and political matters.

In the news columns, however, the complete and unbiased facts should be reported. The better metropolitan newspapers and the great press associations usually can be relied on to keep their news impartial. But the less ethical publications often deliberately“color”the news to favor or oppose certain groups or movements.

(1)The author states that no modern newspaper ________.

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A．is free of propaganda

B．is controlled by big business interests

C．separates fact and opinion

D．operates according to a code of ethics

(2)According to the passage, all daily newspapers ________.

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A．have an editorial page

B．follow a code of ethics

C．are operated by an unbiased publisher

D．are supported by a big business organization

(3)According to the journalistic code of ethics, a newspaper must ________.

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A．accept only responsible advertisers

B．separate editorials from news

C．interpret news according to its editorial viewpoint

D．determine what the reader should know about the news

(4)According to the passage, a newspaper publisher may use the ________ editorial page to support.

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A．only the cause which is most popular

B．any cause supported by the advertisers

C．any cause he believes in

D．only the cause of the owners

(5)Newspapers have entered the category of large business organizations because of ________.

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A．their influence on the reading public

B．their reports of stock market activity

C．the millions of papers sold daily

D．the tremendous costs of production

试题答案

答案：C;A:D;D;D