Question 3
COMPREHENSION PASSAGE
The endeavour to maintain paper standards of fairness in journalism must be pursued. It is fatally easy for the journalist to deviate the straight path. There is his natural desire to “make a story” and insidious temptation to twist facts to square with his paper’s policy. Both indefensible as the framing of misleading headline for the sake of the effect. The conscientious journalist must check any tendency to bias, and guard against the dangers inherent in personal antipathies of friendships, and in traditional opposition between rival schools of thought. When a political opponent, whose stupidity habitually provokes attack, makes an effective speech, honesty requires that he should be given credit for it.
The endeavour to maintain paper standards of fairness in journalism must be pursued. It is fatally easy for the journalist to deviate the straight path. There is his natural desire to “make a story” and insidious temptation to twist facts to square with his paper’s policy. Both indefensible as the framing of misleading headline for the sake of the effect. The conscientious journalist must check any tendency to bias, and guard against the dangers inherent in personal antipathies of friendships, and in traditional opposition between rival schools of thought. When a political opponent, whose stupidity habitually provokes attack, makes an effective speech, honesty requires that he should be given credit for it.
‘insidious’ as used in the passage means
Objective