Daily Post newspaper reporter Roger Nightengale let it be known that A

Daily Post newspaper reporter Roger Nightengale let it be known that Andrea Johnson, the key figure in his award-winning series of articles on prostitution and drug abuse, was a composite of many persons and not a single, real person, and so he was the subject of much criticism by fellow journalists for having failed to disclose that information when the articles were first published. But these were the same critics who voted Nightengale a prize for his magazine serial General, which was a much dramatized and fictionalized account of a Korean War military leader whose character was obviously patterned closely after that of Douglas MacArthur.

In which of the following ways might the critics mentioned in the paragraph argue that they were NOT inconsistent in their treatment of Nightengale’s works?

(A) Fictionalization is an accepted journalistic technique for reporting on sensitive subject matter such as prostitution.

(B) Critic disapproval is one of the most important ways members of the writing community have for ensuring that reporting is accurate and to the point.

(C) Newspaper reporters usually promise confidentiality to their sources and have an obligation to protect their identities.

(D) There is a critical difference between dramatizing events in a piece of fiction and presenting distortions of the truth as actual fact.

(E) Well-known personalities are public figures whose personal lives are acceptable material for journalistic investigations.