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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.

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.

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.

We know that the coverage was accurate and on a topic of interest. (C) tells us that this guarantees it was good journalism.

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.

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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