easy · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A journalist argues that a newspaper should decline to publish a particular story. Her reason is that the reporter who wrote it stands to benefit personally from the outcome the story would promote, and that personal stake creates an unacceptable risk of bias.
The journalist's argument depends on which one of the following principles?
- Objective reporting is the most reliable way for a newspaper to shield itself from costly legal liability.
- A newspaper ought to withhold work produced by a reporter who has a personal interest in the story's outcome.
- A reporter's personal motivation in a story's outcome invariably produces shoddy, unreliable journalism.
- Unverified factual claims, more than any other failing, pose the greatest threat to a paper's credibility.
- A newspaper should disclose its reporters' conflicts of interest to readers before it publishes a story.
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