Soal No.39 Literasi Bahasa Inggris

The mass media have a powerful influence and control on people’s view of the world. Mass media source are newspapers, televisions, and radios. They frequently serve as the only link to the situations that occur outside of one’s neighborhood. We live in the global age. We live in a world that has become thoroughly interconnected and interdependent. Our life is communicated in the flows of information and culture, including news journalism.

For journalism in America today, the news has been encouraging and dispiriting. During a time of crisis or a momentous event, the news media can do a marvelous job. Reporters play a vital role in reporting the crisis, war or conflict. A story covered by a journalist or a reporter on an event can be the exclusive information presented to the public. The news can bias the public in support of one party, of one solution over another. It should build up the conflict or cool it down.

Whenever people think about news, they tend to think about “crisis” report. In such context, journalists are participants in the reported crisis. However, the journalist's main goal is to inform accurately. Consequently, they make every suitable effort and attempt to be “objective”. This often leads them to certain difficulties.

In the passage there are statements like these “reporters play a vital role in reporting the crisis, war or conflict. A story covered by a journalist or a reporter on an event can be the exclusive information presented to the public. 

…… people will never be able to know what is happening in the world 

A. Unless reporters do their assignments 

B. Had reporters been able to present the news   

C. If reporters play their proper task in getting the news 

D. Unless reporters refuse to be sent to terrible war zones 

E. Were reporters assigned to the countries with heavy conflicts