Directions- Read the short passage below and answer the questions that follow.

The term journalism has its derivative, so to say, it comes from the term journal, which means to register. And hence it means recording of all events. The central point is, it combines writing with news gathering and interpretation. It is true that the journalist’s work varies from newspaper to newspaper and from magazine to magazine. All journalists are as much research workers, as they are writers. They cannot write their news or feature stories, unless they locate it and research them first. They must be able to read the in-between lines of the main source news and interpret that.

A professionally ethical and successful journalist scans the news for truth by filtering and taking only a small bit of news, say, only 3-5%, may be, coming from an unexpected source. He must be able to see or forecast to himself, the news of tomorrow or the day after, from the news of today because newspapers, falling under yellow journalism, giving sensational news not verifying it, can’t sustain its market. Bogus scoops will certainly bring disrepute to the newspaper