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Informed people generally assimilate information from several divergent sources before coming to an opinion. However, most popular news organizations view foreign affairs solely through the eyes of our State Department. In reporting the political crisis in foreign country B, news organizations must endeavor to find alternative sources of information.

Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the argument above?


A. To the degree that a news source gives an account of another country that mirrors that of our State Department, that reporting is suspect.

B. To protect their integrity, news media should avoid the influence of State Department releases in their coverage of foreign affairs.

C. Reporting that is not influenced by the State Department is usually more accurate than are other accounts.

D. The alternative sources of information mentioned in the passage would probably not share the same views as the State Department.

E. A report cannot be seen as influenced by the State Department if it accurately depicts the events in a foreign country.



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For inference questions, you must draw conclusions "only" from the information you are directly given in the passage.

Option A - Incorrect:
This answer choice gives an assumption outside the scope of this passage. So, therefore, we can't make this inference from it.

Option B - Incorrect:
News media according to the passage regularly used the State of Department releases in their foreign affairs coverage and it doesn't mention any report of it being influenced or the news media integrity being doubted.


Option C - Incorrect:
This answer choice makes a too-far leap in logic ascertaining that news from the State Department are influenced while the passage only encourages the news organizations to source for more alternatives news sources to the State Department when it comes to airing political crisis news in foreign country B. additionally, it can't be known from the passage if the State Department influences news or not, and as such, we can't say their news is more accurate than other news sources.

Option D - Correct:
This answer choice is correct. Since informed people generally assimilate information from several divergent sources before coming to an opinion, then, we can infer that using alternative sources in reporting political crises in foreign country B by the news media would enable the people to have access to read different sources of news as the news would not share the same views as that of the State Department.

Option E - Incorrect:
The passage does not report any case of news being influenced by the State Department, so, we cannot make this inference regarding the foreign country based on the given information.