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53. When investigators discovered that the director of a local charity had repeatedly overstated the number of people his charity had helped, the director accepted responsibility for the deception. However, the investigators claims that journalists were as much to blame as the director was for inflating the charity’s reputation, since they had naively accepted what the director told them, and simply reported as fact the numbers he gave them.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the investigators’ claim

A.    Anyone who works for a charitable organization is obliged to be completely honest about the activities of that organization.
B.    Anyone who knowingly aids a liar by trying to conceal the truth from others is also a liar.
C.    Anyone who presents as factual a story that turns out to be untrue without first attempting to verify that story is no less responsible for the consequences of that story than anyone else is.
D.    Anyone who lies in order to advance his or her own career is more deserving of blame than someone who lies in order to promote a good cause.
E.    Anyone who accepts responsibility for a wrongful act that he or she committed is less deserving of blame than someone who tries to conceal his or her own wrongdoing.

本题答案C，我完全摸不着头脑。想问C选项如何翻译

法兰克福来客

任何把在没有尝试故事真实性的前提下把虚假故事当成真实的来传播的人比任何其他人都应该为此负责

法兰克福来客

调查者由“杂志听信director给的数据”推出“杂志应该负责”，中间的gap就是C选项。