PT141.S4.Q24

PrepTest 141 - Section 4 - Question 24

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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.

Missing Connection

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.

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24.

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a

All societies that ████ █████████ ████ █████ ███ ████████ ████████████

b

If an electorate ███ ██████ ██ ████████ ███████████ █████ ███ ███████████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████ ██ █████████████ █████ █████████ █████████ ███████

c

A democracy will ██████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ █████████████ █████ █████████ █████████ ███████

d

A democracy cannot ██████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ ███████ ██ ██████ ███████████ █████ ███ ███████████

e

Without effective news ██████ ██ ██████████ ████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ████████ ███████████ █████ ███ ███████████

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