Question

Journalists are often accused by people of defaming individuals by making assumptions about them. Sometimes these assumptions have such an impact that they ruin a person's life. Even after all this, people do not want the censorship of press. People feel that journalists should be free to print whatever they want for the sake of truth.

The statements above, if true, best support which of the following assertions?

1. Censorship of press would allow some agencies to have complete control over the press. This might not allow the press to bring out the truth always. 
2. People do not want to stop the press from defaming certain individuals.
3. People enjoy seeing the ruination of someone else's life. 
4. People like journalists, so they do not want to prevent them from printing anything.
5. Journalists print whatever they feel like without thinking of the repercussions, so people think that they should be controlled.

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Censorship of press would allow some agencies to have complete control over the press. This might not allow the press to bring out the truth always. 

The above statements clearly show the accusations on the press which means that false news that might ruin someone's life is not appreciated, so option 2 and 3 cannot be right. We do not know whether people like journalists or not, so option 4 cannot be right either. Option 5 provides us with an argument that completely opposes the statement, so it can't be right. Option 1 presents a logical argument as to why people do not want censorship of press because then it might lead to compromise of truth and hence, option 1 is the right answer.