Bold Face CR, Method of Reasoning, Similar Reasoning

Media coverage of complex news events often oversimplifies. The causes of this strong tendency include the inherent challenge of explaining the larger context in which events occur, the need to provide coverage across a wide range of issues, the emotional power of images, and the short time allotted to news relative to entertainment by ratings-conscious broadcasters. This has helped give rise to "soft news," in which events are covered by talk shows. The format of such shows, however, lends itself most strongly not to a complex factual explanation of events but instead to the creation of a venation that engages our sympathy and emotions—a story about the event in which there are "good guys" and "bad guys," heroes, villains, and victims. The power of such narratives may well have helped increase support among the American public for 1990s- era U.S. intervention in Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

The relationship between the two bolded sentences is best described as:

A. The first is an assessment of a phenomenon and the second is a description of specific examples of this phenomenon

B. The first is an evaluation of a general trend and the second is a reason for this trend

C. The first is a judgment of a relationship and the second is an instance in which this judgment is shown to be correct

D. The first is a statement evaluating a phenomenon and the second is an observation of a possible result of that phenomenon

E. The first is a claim about a particular issue and the second is an assessment of the accuracy of that claim

The OA is D