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Support As the current information explosion forces the print media, television, and the Internet to compete for public attention and for advertiser and subscriber dollars, Support journalistic standards are lowered. █████████████ ██ ███ ████████████ █████████ ████ ██████████ ███ ███████ ████████████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that we are increasingly bombarded with inaccurate and trivial information. This is based on the fact that journalistic standards are being lowered due to the increased competition among print media, television, and the Internet for money from advertisers and subscribers.
Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is what the author asserts is a consequence of journalistic standards being lowered: “[W]e are increasingly bombarded with inaccurate and trivial information.”
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The author never asserts anything about the weighing of benefits and drawbacks of the information explosion.
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This is a paraphrase of the last sentence, which is the conclusion.
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This is part of the support. Because journalistic standards have lowered, the author concludes that we are increasingly bombarded with inaccurate and trivial information.
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This is part of the support. Because of this competition, journalistic standards have been lowered, which in turn means we are increasingly bombarded with inaccurate and trivial information.
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If journalists returned ██ ███████ ████████████ ██████████ ███ ████████████ ███ ███████████ ██ ████ ███████ █████ █████████
The author never asserts anything about what would happen if journalists returned to earlier journalistic standards.