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Marcus: Conclusion For most ethical dilemmas the journalist is likely to face, traditional journalistic ethics is clear, adequate, and essentially correct. ███ ████████ ████ ███████████ ████ █████████ ██████████ ████████████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ █████ ████ ██ ██ ████ ██ █████████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████████ ████████ ██ ████████████ █████████ ██ ████████████
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Argument Structure
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Qs 18 & 19
This stimulus serves both Q18 and Q19. Here's a summary that highlights the important elements for each question:
Marcus' Claim: For most ethical dilemmas in journalism, traditional ethics is adequate.
Anita's Narrow Counterexample: In [this very common circumstance ], traditional journalistic ethics is not adequate. ← Q18
[Necessary assumption: This typical case is an example of an ethical dilemma.] ← Q19
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Q19's Conclusion: For most ethical dilemmas, traditional journalistic ethics is not adequate.
Anita's initial rebuttal stops short of saying Marcus' claim is wrong. Still though, for her rebuttal to be relevant, the counterexample Anita brings up must involve an ethical dilemma.
18.
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This goes too far (see Q19, which makes us articulate the necessary assumption required to get to (A)).
Because Anita never establishes that the typical situation she brings up is an example of an ethical dilemma, she can't yet go so far as to say Marcus' claim is wrong.
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In addition to "Marcus is wrong" going too far (see (A) and Q19), Anita's counterexample attacks the adequacy of traditional ethics, not its correctness.
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(C) is appropriately reserved in its characterization of Anita's point. Because she hasn't yet established that the situation she brings up is an example of an ethical dilemma, she can't yet say Marcus is wrong. What she can and does say, however, is just that there is a typical situation in which traditional ethics is not adequate.
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(D) reads well until "no principle of journalistic ethics can be of help," which is overstrong in a few directions. First, Marcus and Anita are just discussing traditional ethics; perhaps new-age ethics are better. Second, Anita describes ethics being inadequate, which does not mean she thinks they are of no use whatsoever.
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This is a dramatic overstatement of Anita's position, and comes out of nowhere with respect to its textual support.