Sarah: Reporters, by allotting time

Answer choices

1. A

   Unsupported Person 218% picked this

   Reporters actually do interpret the news every time they

   This answer is very tempting, but Ramon doesn't comment at all on what reporters actually do, only what they should / are obliged to do. Since we aren't told his stance on what they actually do, we can't say he disagrees with Sarah. I also think this answer misrepresents the sense of "always interpreting" that Sarah is using. She would really say "reporters actually interpret the news every time they decide on a story to report". The act of relaying the story isn't even in Sarah's definition of "interpretation". So we might struggle to even say that Sarah agrees with this (and she would be the one more likely to agree).

   18%
2. B

   No Support for Person 112% picked this

   Reporters should exercise their own judgment as to which events

   This is the flipside of choice (A). Ramon talked about what reporters should do, but Sarah only talks about what reporters do do. We have no idea what Sarah thinks reporters should do.

   12%
3. C

   Unsupported Both Too Strong: primary2% picked this

   Reporters' primary responsibility is to see that people are kept informed

   We couldn't infer from either person's statements what they think is the primary responsibility of reporters. Ramon definitely thinks that deeming a story to be newsworthy and relaying that story in a detached, objective manner are each responsibilities of reporters. Which does he think is a bigger responsibility? Who knows.

   2%
4. D

   No Support for Person 15% picked this

   Reporters should not allot time to reporting some events rather

   As soon as we see "should" we can ditch the answer, since Person 1 doesn't make any claims that deal with what should be, just claims that deal with what is the case.

   5%
5. E

   Correct62% picked this

   Reporting on certain events rather than others qualifies as interpreting

   Why this is right

   Sarah would say YES, because this is the connective tissue between her two statements. The "in other words" means that we could restate the first sentence (deciding what qualifies as news) as "interpreting the news". Ramon would say NO, because he has said that "reporters should never interpret the news". If he thought that "Interpreting news = deciding which stories to report on", then he would be saying "Reporters should never decide which stories to report on". But his 2nd claim begins, "Once reporters decide which stories to report on (i.e. deem which stories are newsworthy". So if he subscribed to this definition of interpreting than he would be contradicting himself: "Reporters should never do X. Once they do X, they should do Y." Instead, Ramon clearly interprets interpreting as failing to relay the facts untainted ... i.e. adding some subjective color to the way they relay a story.

   Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   62%