Verbal Ability – Twitter is not on the masthead of a newspaper


XAT 2021 Exam Paper – Verbal Ability – Twitter is not on the masthead of a newspaper


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:

A. Newspapers are ready to compromise with their ethics.
B. Newspapers fear to speak outside the narrow confines of social media.
C. Newspapers get influenced by the followers on social-media platforms.
D. Newspapers create their own narratives to control the audience.
E. Newspapers cave into the narratives shared on social-media platforms.

Solution:
E

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