LSAT 154 – Section 1 – Question 07

LSAT 154 - Section 1 - Question 07

September 2017

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT154 S1 Q07
+LR
+Exp
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
93%
163
B
0%
145
C
0%
152
D
5%
155
E
1%
149
128
137
146
 +Easier 147.621 +SubsectionMedium

Mark: Advances in technology have caused the decline of newspaper sales. News can be reported in articles on the Internet as it happens and at any time of day. No print newspaper can possibly keep up with that.

Fatuma: Newspaper writing is hampered by conventions that do not add to readers’ understanding of the news. It is not the fault of technology that newspapers are losing their audience to the Internet. Newspaper articles are just too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point.

Speaker 1 Summary
Mark concludes that advances in technology have caused the decline of newspaper sales. As support, Mark asserts that news can be reported in online articles as it happens and at any time of the day. This isn’t something a print newspaper can do.

Speaker 2 Summary
Fatuma concludes that technology is not the reason that newspapers are losing their audience to the Internet. As support, Fatuma asserts that writing in print news articles is too long, whereas online news articles are not. The lengthy print news articles are a convention of print news. They aren’t a product of technology.

Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether technology is the cause of the decline in newspaper sales.

A
Readers are abandoning newspapers in favor of news articles on the Internet because of the speed with which they appear on the Internet.
This is a point of disagreement. Mark cites the fact news can appear instantly online as a reason that technology has caused the decline in newspaper sales. Fatuma does not blame timing. She instead blames the length of newspaper articles.
B
Newspaper articles are too long.
Mark does not express an opinion about this. He doesn’t discuss the length of newspaper articles. Although we can infer he doesn’t think length is the reason newspaper sales are declining, that doesn’t mean he thinks newspaper articles are of an appropriate length.
C
News articles on the Internet get to the point.
Mark does not express an opinion about this. He doesn’t discuss the length of online articles. Although we can infer he doesn’t think length is the reason newspaper sales are declining, that doesn’t mean he thinks online articles do or do not get to the point.
D
Newspaper writing is hampered by conventions that do not add to the reader’s understanding of the news.
Mark doesn’t express an opinion about this. Although he does not believe newspaper conventions are the cause of declining newspaper sales, he might still agree that these bad conventions exist. He can think these conventions, while bad for readers, don’t cause lower sales.
E
No print newspaper can possibly publish news as fast as it can be published on the Internet.
Fatuma doesn’t express an opinion about this. Although she thinks the timing afforded by technology is not the cause of declining newspaper sales, she can still agree that newspapers cannot publish as fast as online publications can.

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