PT148.S3.Q6

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PrepTest 148 - Section 3 - Question 6

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Support The word "loophole" is a loaded, partisan word, one that implies wrongdoing and scandal. ████ ██████████ ██████ ████ ████ ████████ ████ █████ ██ ████ ████ ███████████ ██ ████ █████████ ██████ ███ ███ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ █████ ███████ ██████ ████ ███████ ████████ ██ ███████████

Summary

The author concludes that if they don’t provide evidence of wrongdoing, reporters shouldn’t use the term “loophole” in their news stories.

Why?

Because “loophole” implies wrongdoing. Using “loophole” in a news story makes the story sound more like an editorial.

Notable Assumptions

We want a principle to connect the premises to the judgment that reporters shouldn’t use the term “loophole” if they don’t provide evidence of wrong doing. For example:

If a term implies wrongdoing, and you don’t provide evidence of wrongdoing in the story, then you should not use the term.

or

If a term makes a story sound more like an editorial, and you don’t provide evidence of wrongdoing in the story, then you should not use the term.

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Which one of the following ███████████ ██ ██████ ████ █████ ██ ███████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ █████████

Making use of █ ████████ █████ ███████████ ██████████ ██ ████████

We’re trying to prove that the term “loophole” shouldn’t be used under certain circumstances. Whether one uses a loophole is a separate issue.

Editorials should meet ███ ████ ████████████ █████████ ██ ████ ████████

Whether editorials should meet the same standards as news stories doesn’t tell us that the term “loophole” shouldn’t be used under certain circumstances. We don’t even know from the premises whether the term “loophole” shouldn’t be used under the journalistic standards for new stories.

News stories need ██ ████ ████████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ ███████████

(C) isn’t worded in a predictable way, but it does strengthen the argument. If news stories need to give evidence to back up suggestions of misconduct, then if they don’t provide evidence of misconduct, they shouldn’t suggest that there was misconduct. The term “loophole” implies misconduct. So if a news story doesn’t provide evidence of misconduct, they shouldn’t use the term “loophole.”

Editorial writers should ██ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ████████ ██████

We’re trying to support the claim that news stories shouldn’t use “loophole” without providing evidence of misconduct. A principle allowing editorials to use words like “loophole” doesn’t help us get to the conclusion.

News reporters should ███ ██████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███████ ████ ██ ███ █ ██████ ██ ██████ █████████

(E) allows us to conclude that news reporters shouldn’t report on certain kinds of wrongdoing. But we’re trying to prove that a certain term shouldn’t be used in a news story. That’s a separate issue from whether reporters should report on certain wrongdoing.

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