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The sociologist claims that news cannot give us information on which to act—its intended function—because our society has caused news to become primarily entertainment.

The economist claims that news cannot serve its intended function (providing information on which to act) without establishing what’s necessary to serve this function. This means that the economist assumes that what’s established about news (that it’s primarily entertaining) prevents it from being able to provide information on which to act. The conclusion doesn’t follow if primarily entertaining media can provide actionable information, so the economist must assume that it can’t.

The economist assumes that news cannot be primarily entertaining while providing actionable information, but it could still serve its intended function while having some entertainment value.

Viewers’ preferences are irrelevant to the question of whether news can serve its intended function of providing actionable information or not.

The argument is only concerned with news’s ability to serve its intended function, which is providing actionable information. It wouldn’t matter if news also had other important functions.

This must be true in order for the conclusion to follow. If (D) weren’t true—if primarily entertaining news gave us this information—then it would serve its intended function.

The economist establishes that news has become entertainment under current circumstances, but doesn’t need to assume that this must always be the case.

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