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回答题：The newspaper must provide forthe reader the facts, unalloyed, unslanted, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex newsit must provide more; it must supply interpretation, the meaning of the facts.This is the most important assignment confrontingAmerican journalism--to make clear to the reader the problems of the day, tomake international news as understandable as community news, to recognize thatthere is no longer any such thing (with the possibleexception of such scribbling as society and club news) as "local"news, because any event in the international area has alocal reaction in manpower draft, in economic strain, in terms, indeed, of ourvery way of life.
There is in journalism a widespread viewthat when you embark on interpretation, you are entering choppy and dangerouswaters, the swirling tides of opinion. This is nonsense.
The opponents of interpretation insistthat the writer and the editor shall confine themselves 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 aso-called "factual" story comes about. The reporter collects, say,fifty facts; out of these fifty, his space allotment being necessarilyrestricted, he selects the ten, which he considers most important. This is JudgmentNumber One. Then he or his editor decides which of these ten facts shallconstitute the lead of the piece. This is important decision because manyreaders do not proceed beyond the first paragraph. This is Judgment Number Two.Then the night editor determines whether the article shall be presented on pageone, where it has a large 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 judgmentsare involveD．And they are judgments not at all unlike those involved ininterpretation, in which reporter and editor, calling upon their generalbackground, and their "news neutralism", arrive at a conclusion as tothe significance of the news.
The two areas of judgment, presentation of the news and its interpretation, areboth objective rather than subjective processes-as objective, that is, as anyhuman being can be. (Note in. passing: even though complete objectivity cannever be achieved, nevertheless the ideal must always be the beacon on themurky news channels. ) If an editor is intent on slanting the news, he can doit in other ways and more effectively than by interpretation. He can do it bythe selection of those facts that prop up his particular pleA．Or he can do itby the pay he gives a story-
promotingit to page one or demoting it to page thirty.
Readers expect all of the following from newspapers EXCEPT A．howto interpret news
B．interpretations of news
C．community news
D．international news
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