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Paretan newspaper editor: David Salino assails as distorted our quotation of remarks on Paretan values by the Quinkoan prime minister and bemoans what he sees as the likely consequences for paretan-Qinkoan relations. Those consequences will not be our fault, however, since officials at the Qinkoan embassy and scholars at the Institute of Qinkoan Studies have all confirmed that, as printed, our quotation was an acceptable translation of the prime minister's remarks. No newspaper can fairly be blamed for the consequences of its reporting when that reporting is accurate.





Which one of the following is an assumption on which the editor's argument depends?





(A) The confirmation that the translation is acceptable is sufficient to show that the prim minister’s remarks were accurately reported.


(B) Newspapers out not to consider the consequences of their coverage in deciding what to report.


(C) If the newspaper’s rendering of the prime minister’s remarks was not distorted, then there is no reason to fear adverse consequences from reporting the remarks.


(D) If David Salino was prepared to praise the newspaper for any favorable consequences of quoting the prime minister’s remarks, he could then hold the newspaper to blame for adverse consequences.


(E) Only scholars or people with official standing are in a position to pass judgment on whether a translation of Qinkoan into Paretan is acceptable.

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I believe the answer is "B" -- Newspapers accept the stories provided by reporters -- reporters count on the accuracy of the translation of quotes. In this example, it was confirmed that the newspaper reported the quote accurately. If newspapers were to take that step further to then consider the consequences of their decision to print that information, they would effectively be engaging in yellow journalism. That is, the newspaper that redlines or picks and chooses what it will report, risks their credibility once they engage in this sort of 'screening'. When I was in college, we learned how to read newspapers to determine which political position the paper leaned toward. It was interesting to see that you could actually tell which publications were liberal (or Democratic) and which were conservative (or Republican). So while I believe my assessment of the example here is correct -- I do have my reservations about whether there is such a thing as a newspaper that actually does just report everything as it is -- I feel that it is pretty clear where they stand in large part; you just have to know HOW to read the newspaper to learn what makes them tick...
Reply:. . .; the point of the argument is that the newspaper should not be blamed for such consquences, if the reporting was accurate. Report It

Reply:B.
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I wouldn't mind being "The Man."


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