IELTS reading inference Practice
En permettant aux candidats de communiquer directement avec les citoyens, les médias sociaux ont réduit l'influence des...
Question type: sentence completion · Difficulty: intermediate
- A. les petits donateurs.
- B. les dirigeants de partis politiques.
- C. les observateurs internationaux.
- D. les gardiens des médias traditionnels.
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Paragraph E states that traditionally, politicians relied on 'established media outlets... to act as gatekeepers'. It then contrasts this with the modern day where social media allows candidates to 'bypass the editorial filters of traditional journalism'. This means the influence of these traditional media gatekeepers has been reduced.