Difficult CR - newspaper articles .. please help

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The recent proliferation of newspapaer articles in major publications that have been exposed as fabrications serves to bolster the contention that publishers are more interested in selling copy than in printing the truth. Even minor publications have staffs to check such obvious fraud.

The above argument assumes that
a)newspaper stories of dubious authencity are a new phenomenon
b)minor publications do a better job of fact-checking than do major publications
c)everything a newspaper prints must be factually veriable
d)only recently have newspapers admitted to publishing erroneous stories
e)publishers are ultimately responsible for what is printed in their newspapers.
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by aditi_bc » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:06 pm
Please post the OA with the argument. Use the 'spolier' function to mask the answer.

It is a tricky CR. I am confused between C and E though I would go with E.

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by Jatinder » Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:48 pm
its E

E--- detroys the conclusion
C-- destroy the evidence

go with E
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by raunekk » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:22 pm
imo:E

conclusion:publishers are more interested in selling copy than in printing the truth.
P1:The recent proliferation of newspapaer articles in major publications that have been exposed as fabrications serves to bolster the contention

p2:Even minor publications have staffs to check such obvious fraud

E)publishers are ultimately responsible for what is printed in their newspapers

The conclusion is based on the fact that publishers can bend the information as they want.

Thus assumption should be:publishers are resposible for whatever is printed.

Now lets try to use negation rule:

E)publishers are ultimately not responsible for what is printed in their newspapers

If they are not resposible than they will not be able to bend the truth for publishing

Thus the conlclusion falls apart.

lets take C,

c)everything a newspaper prints must not be factually veriable.

The conclusion is not weakened or affected.

Thus E
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by cramya » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:12 pm
Raunekk,
Well put!

OA is [spoiler]E)[/spoiler]

My 2 cents worth:

The key to answering assumption questions is to identify the conclusion correctly and the ask the question "Why could this be true" or "What unstated fact the author would have considered in concluding what he did"

Raunekk did exactly that in his own way....

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by raunekk » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:32 pm
Raunekk,
Well put!
thanks cramya!!

it feels good when someone makes an extra effort to appreciate your work!! :)

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by cramya » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:40 pm
No probs! I always believe that due credit should go to the deserving :-)

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by NehaBhandari » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:31 pm
Hey guys..
Thanks for the explanation.. I am a li'l hesitant to use the denial test .. I need to start using more often than not i guess...Thanks again :lol:

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by sam9999 » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:22 am
cramya wrote:Raunekk,
Well put!

OA is [spoiler]E)[/spoiler]

My 2 cents worth:

The key to answering assumption questions is to identify the conclusion correctly and the ask the question "Why could this be true" or "What unstated fact the author would have considered in concluding what he did"

Raunekk did exactly that in his own way....
The key is "such obvious fraud". It might be the author's opinion.

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by nicolette » Fri May 13, 2016 1:32 am
I will Go with option E in this case

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by vanessa.m » Fri May 13, 2016 1:35 am
E seems to be the best choice here