Logical Reasoning

PT129 · S1 · Q2 Randy: After Mega Cable Television Company

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Randy: After Mega Cable Television Company refused to carry the competing Azco News Service alongside its own news channels, the mayor used her influence to get Azco time on a community channel, demonstrating her concern for keeping a diversity of news programming in the city.

Evidence

After Mega Cable Television Company refused to carry the competing Azco News Service alongside its own news channels, the mayor used her influence to get Azco time on a community channel.

Conclusion

The mayor's action is rewarding Azco's owner, a political supporter of hers.

Evaluate

Marion speculates a reason (rewarding a political supporter) for the mayor’s action (using influence to get Azco News Service time on a community channel). To weaken this argument an answer could provide an alternative reason, identify a supporter who was not provided some benefit, or identify someone who received a similar benefit who was not a political supporter.

2.

Of the following, which one, if true, is the logically strongest counter Randy can make to Marion's objection?

  1. The owner of Azco supported

    Premise Support

    This explains why the owner of Azco News Service supported the mayor, but doesn’t explain why the mayor acted to benefit Azco News Service.

    7% picked this

  2. Correct

    The mayor also used her

    Why this is right

    This identifies someone who received a similar benefit to the one received by Azco News Service and yet was not being rewarded as a political supporter. This challenges the explanation offered by Marion.

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

    83% picked this

  3. Azco's news coverage of the

    Out of Scope

    Marion’s explanation was not based on the coverage of the mayor by Azco News Service but rather on the support the mayor received from the owner of Azco News Service.

    7% picked this

  4. The many people whose jobs

    Strengthens

    This suggests that the mayor may have acted out of self-interest rather than a desire to keep a diversity of news programming on the air.

    2% picked this

  5. The number of people who

    Out of Scope

    The number of people who watch Mega Cable Television Company’s news program is not relevant to an explanation of the mayor’s action to get time for Azco News Service on a community channel.

    1% picked this

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