Journalists sometimes use historical photographs

Answer choices

1. A

   Reversal6% picked this

   Any practice by which journalists present current events as mere repetitions of historical incidents overstates the similarities

   This reverses the assumption of the argument.

   6%
2. B

   Correct73% picked this

   If the work of a journalist overstates the similarities between past and present, then it distorts public understanding of the present by presenting current

   Why this is right

   This bridges the gap in the argument between over-stating the similarities be-tween past and present and distorting public under-standing of the present.

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

   73%
3. C

   Wrong Trigger / Wrong Outcome14% picked this

   If a journalistic practice distorts public understanding of the present by overstating the similarities between past and present, then it denies the individual significance

   This answer contains a trigger that has not been established.

   14%
4. D

   Reversal4% picked this

   No article about a current event treats that event as merely a repetition of historical incidents unless it uses historical

   This reverses a relationship that bridges the first premise with the conclusion.

   4%
5. E

   Out of Scope2% picked this

   If journalists believe current events to be mere repetitions of historical incidents, then public understanding of the

   What journalists believe is not relevant to the argument.

   2%