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The author concludes that the inclination of newer media to use openly partisan reporting is a result of different business strategies compared to older media.
Why does the author believe this?
Because newer media outlets need to stand out in a crowded marketplace.
The standard of objectivity among older newspapers developed mainly among newspapers with no competitors.
So the most important objective for those older newspapers was to avoid offending potential readers.
The author assumes that openly partisan reporting is something that newer media perceives as better able to help it stand out among competitors compared to objective reporting.
The author also assumes that openly partisan reporting is something that older newspapers perceived as more likely to offend its readers compared to objective reporting.
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Not necessary, because we know that newer media is more inclined to use openly partisan reporting. Whether individual journalists are or are not as partisan is a separate issue from whether the reporting is openly partisan.
People prefer objective █████████ ██ ████████ █████████ ████ ██████ ██████████ █████ ███ ████████ █████████
Not necessary, because the specific kind of partisan reporting that people prefer doesn’t affect the reasoning. The argument is based on what newer media and older newspapers perceive as better for their business strategy; what people actually prefer doesn’t matter, because media/newspapers can still have a perception of what people would prefer.
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Not necessary, because the argument concerns what explains the different attitudes toward openly partisan vs. objective reporting. Whether newer media are becoming more or less popular doesn’t affect whether the explanation for the different attitudes relates to business strategy.
Newspapers have regarded █████████ █████████ ██ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████ ████ ██████ ████████ ██████████
Necessary, because if this were not true — if newspapers have NOT regarded objective reporting as less likely to offend than openly partisan reporting (in other words, if they thought objective reporting was as likely or even more likely to offend than openly partisan reporting) — then the fact that older newspapers wanted to avoid offending their readers would not explain why they tended to use objective reporting instead of openly partisan reporting.
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Not necessary, because the argument doesn’t concern what is an “essential” journalist standard. The argument concerns what explains why newer media adopt a different attitude toward objectivity. Whether objectivity is an “essential” standard or not doesn’t affect the explanation for why newer media is less objective.
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