Clearly, Conclusion a democracy cannot thrive without effective news media. After all, Support a democracy cannot thrive without an electorate that is knowledgeable about important political issues, and Support an electorate can be knowledgeable in this way only if it has access to unbiased information about the government.
The author concludes that in order for a democracy to thrive, there must be effective news media. This is based on the following:
In order for a democracy to thrive, it must have an electorate that is knowledgeable about important political issues. And in order for an electorate to be knowledgeable about important political issues, it must have access to unbiased info about the government.
We know from the premises that in order for a democracy to thrive, the electorate must have access to unbiased info about the government. But the conclusion jumps to the claim that we need “effective news media” for a democracy to thrive. We don’t know anything about “effective news media” is required for from the premises. So we want to add a claim that establishes that in order for an electorate to get unbiased info about the government, there must be effective news media.
The argument's conclusion is properly inferred if which one of the following is assumed?
All societies that have effective news media are thriving democracies.
(A) establishes that societies with effective news media have thriving democracies. But this doesn’t imply that in order to be a thriving democracy, it’s necessary to have effective news media. So (A) doesn’t guarantee the conclusion.
If an electorate has access to unbiased information about the government, then that electorate will be knowledgeable about important political issues.
(B) doesn’t say anything about what effective news media is required for. Since the premises also don’t say anything about that, there’s no way that (B), in connection with the premises, could prove a conclusion concerning what effective news media is required for.
A democracy will thrive if its electorate is knowledgeable about important political issues.
(C) doesn’t say anything about what effective news media is required for. Since the premises also don’t say anything about that, there’s no way that (C), in connection with the premises, could prove a conclusion concerning what effective news media is required for.
A democracy cannot thrive if the electorate is exposed to biased information about the government.
(D) doesn’t say anything about what effective news media is required for. Since the premises also don’t say anything about that, there’s no way that (D), in connection with the premises, could prove a conclusion concerning what effective news media is required for.
Without effective news media, an electorate will not have access to unbiased information about the government.
(E) establishes that effective news media is necessary for an electorate to have access to unbiased info about the government. In connection with the premises, this proves that an effective news media is necessary for a thriving democracy.
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