Self-study
Editorial: One of our local television stations has been criticized for its recent coverage of the personal problems of a local politician's nephew, but Conclusion the coverage was in fact good journalism. ███ ███████████ ███ █████████ ████████████ ███ ████████ ███ █████████████ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████ ████ ██████ ███ ███████ █████ ███ ████████████ ████████ █████████
Summary
Recent TV coverage of a local politician’s nephew’s problems was good journalism. This is because the information was accurate and on a topic that many people are interested in.
Notable Assumptions
There is a clear gap in the argument between accurate information on topics that interest people and good journalism. We want to phrase this gap as a conditional statement, so we are able to form a strong prediction:
If journalism provides accurate information on a topic that interests people, then it is good journalism.
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Which one of the following ███████████ ██ ██████ █████ ████ ████ ██ ███████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████
a
Journalism deserves to ██ ██████████ ██ ██ ████ ███ ███████ ███████████ ████ ██████ █████
Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (A), however, only lets us prove that the coverage should be criticized, not that it shouldn’t.
b
Any journalism that █████████████ █████████████ ███ █████ ██ █ ████ ████████ ██ ██ ███████████
Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (B), however, only lets us prove that the coverage should be criticized, not that it shouldn’t.
c
Any journalism that ████████ ████████ ███████████ ██ █ ███████ █████ █████ █████ ██ ████████████ ████████ ██ ████ ███████████
We know that the coverage was accurate and on a topic of interest. (C) tells us that this guarantees it was good journalism.
d
Good journalism will ██████ ███████ ██████ ████ ███████████ ████ ████ ██████ ██ █████
Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (D), however, only lets us prove that the coverage was deserving of criticism because it was poor journalism, not that it was good.
e
Journalism that neither █████████ ███ ████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ████████ ███████████ ███ █████ ██ ██████████ ████ ███████████
Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (E), however, only lets us prove that the coverage was deserving of criticism because it was poor journalism, not that it was good.