Twitter as Newspaper Editor

XAT 2021 · VALR · Medium · Reading Comprehension

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:

  1. A.

    Newspapers fear to speak outside the narrow confines of social media.

  2. B.

    Newspapers get influenced by the followers on social-media platforms.

  3. C.

    Newspapers cave into the narratives shared on social-media platforms.

  4. D.

    Newspapers create their own narratives to control the audience.

  5. E.

    Newspapers are ready to compromise with their ethics.

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