UNIT 7: SPREADING THE NEWS - Exercise 2

Read the following passage about friendship and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.
BAD NEWS
To hold the key to what is happening in the world, it requires journalists to bear great responsibility and use only ethical means to obtain these facts. Unfortunately, not every journalist always does this.
Sting operations are one of the most controversial ways a journalist can legally get a story. They involve leading a well-known person into a false situation with the hope that they will do something newsworthy. For example, in 2010, the professional snooker player John Higgins ___(1)___. A meeting was secretly filmed in which Higgins and his manager met with two men who said they would give him money if he lost matches on purpose. Higgins agreed to do it but said later it was because he thought the two men were criminals and he had been scared. It turned out that they were reporters from a newspaper. Higgins admitted that meeting the men was foolish but denied having done anything wrong.
Another unethical act is phone hacking. In 2007, the editor of a leading UK newspaper and his private detective had hacked into hundreds of voicemail messages of people ___(2)___. The information they got was used in newspaper stories about members of the royal family. Although the editor said he ___(3)___ and apologized for causing his victims distress, the judge sentenced him to four months in prison, explaining that newspaper editors had to obey the law as well. He ___(4)___.
The paparazzi are ___(5)___, hoping to get a photograph to sell to the papers. In the last years of her life, singer Amy Winehouse was followed by photographers everywhere she went – and it got so bad that in 2009 she went to court and asked a judge to stop them. The judge criticized the journalists for behaving so badly and agreed to help her. He ordered the photographers to stay away from her home, saying that they could not come within 100 metres of Winehouse’s new home.
(Adapted from THINK)