Question

Read the excerpt from a newspaper article.

Last night, Fairview police arrested six university students for involvement in an illegal gambling ring. Today, community leaders and university officials are claiming that Professor Shuman, the students’ academic advisor, should also be arrested. Dr. Harris, the department chairperson, reports that Schuman has recently started holding group tutoring sessions in his campus office in the evenings. Video footage from security cameras outside the campus building shows him exiting on several occasions with some of the accused students. Although Shuman denies the gambling ring allegations, he was most likely involved with this illegal activity.

How should this excerpt be edited to make it more objective?

by including direct quotations from the professor about his knowledge of the gambling ring
by interviewing the department chairman and the professor to get both sides of the story
by removing the commentary that the professor is most likely involved in the gambling ring
by deleting the department chairman’s and professor’s names from the article

Answer 1

C) by removing the commentary that the professor is most likely involved in the gambling ring.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: by removing the commentary that the professor is most likely involved in the gambling ring.

In order to be more objective, that means to keep away personal feelings or interpretation, the article must limit itself to the facts. The previous sentences did that; they described who was arrested and why, as well as the things that made the professor a suspect. In the sentence marked, the author doesn't have any evidence of the culpability of the professor, he only believes that.

Newspapers have a special segment were their opinions are written, they are called "Opinion pieces".