How does the media of today working with the most sophisticated electronic equipment compare with the past? How can they be worse when events today are portrayed in “real time?” Both the press and televised news have been guilty of many sins. In spite of all the great advances in the technology of communications, what unites them over more than a hundred years has been the “rush to judgment” in order to out-scoop rivals. Newspaper journalists could always excuse the need to meet deadlines with the explanation that it was not possible to wait and find confirmation in the field because they lacked the technical “eyes and ears” of information gathering that would allow them to check the validity of their sources.__________________________________________

An examination of several historical examples will clarify the difference.

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The reporters of today’s televised news are of a different order.

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They have been raised on appreciating visual images as “reality” with the fill-in provided by a reporter.

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Unlike the previous generations of newspaper readers, they do not dispose of the same leisure time to wade carefully through follow-up reporting.

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They knew however that the readers would expect follow-up reporting to verify and interpret events with careful research and analysis.

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Solution

The correct option is E They knew however that the readers would expect follow-up reporting to verify and interpret events with careful research and analysis.
Option (e)

Option (e) continues in the same breath as the passage.It moves the discussion forward, talking about the newspaper journalists - hence continuing or extending the idea.

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