Editorial: One of our local television stations has been criticized for its recent coverage of the personal problems of a local politician's nephew, but Conclusion the coverage was in fact good journalism. ███ ███████████ ███ █████████ ████████████ ███ ████████ ███ █████████████ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████ ████ ██████ ███ ███████ █████ ███ ████████████ ████████ █████████
Recent TV coverage of a local politician’s nephew’s problems was good journalism. This is because the information was accurate and on a topic that many people are interested in.
There is a clear gap in the argument between accurate information on topics that interest people and good journalism. We want to phrase this gap as a conditional statement, so we are able to form a strong prediction:
If journalism provides accurate information on a topic that interests people, then it is good journalism.
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Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (A), however, only lets us prove that the coverage should be criticized, not that it shouldn’t.
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Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (B), however, only lets us prove that the coverage should be criticized, not that it shouldn’t.
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We know that the coverage was accurate and on a topic of interest. (C) tells us that this guarantees it was good journalism.
Good journalism will ██████ ███████ ██████ ████ ███████████ ████ ████ ██████ ██ █████
Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (D), however, only lets us prove that the coverage was deserving of criticism because it was poor journalism, not that it was good.
Journalism that neither █████████ ███ ████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ████████ ███████████ ███ █████ ██ ██████████ ████ ███████████
Leads to the wrong conclusion. If the sufficient and necessary conditions were swapped, this would support our conclusion; (E), however, only lets us prove that the coverage was deserving of criticism because it was poor journalism, not that it was good.
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