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.

这题一开始把A、B、D、E全排除了，本来以为是C，但是有一个地方困惑 no less responsible than，我感觉和题干的意思正好相反，所以，只好选一个比较牵强的B。结果答案竟然是C，难道是我意思理解错了，恳请NN指点一下C的意思。

B是无关项.C前面还有个否定词"without".C大概就是在说"那些人拿来做是实的story,他们没有对这这些story检验",就是在说原文"since they had naively accepted what the director told them, and simply reported as fact the numbers he gave them. "的这句话.

no less responsible 否定的否定 =肯定，  responsible 

嗯，谢谢楼上，感情是个双重否定，呵呵

       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.

括号里的是修饰anyone的，拿掉之后主句还是说这些人的责任和其他人一样。与题目不符啊？

这不是和原文意思相同马？

 as much to blame as the director was

和答案中的no less than...