PrepTest 79, Section 2, Question 20
Sociologist: Television, telephones, and other electronic media encourage imprecise, uncritical thinking. Yet critical thinking is the only adequate protection against political demagogues, who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as an objective description of reality.
Sociologist: Television, telephones, and other electronic media encourage imprecise, uncritical thinking. Yet critical thinking is the only adequate protection against political demagogues, who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as an objective description of reality.
Sociologist: Television, telephones, and other electronic media encourage imprecise, uncritical thinking. Yet critical thinking is the only adequate protection against political demagogues, who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as an objective description of reality.
Sociologist: Television, telephones, and other electronic media encourage imprecise, uncritical thinking. Yet critical thinking is the only adequate protection against political demagogues, who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as an objective description of reality.
If the sociologist's statements are true, then each of the following statements could be true EXCEPT:
There are no political demagogues in some highly technological societies.
Political demagogues are not the only ones who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as an objective description of reality.
Highly emotional people are more easily exploited than less emotional people.
The mere presence of an orderly system of government in a society provides adequate protection against political demagogues.
The mere presence of electronic communications technology in a society provides adequate protection against the erosion of media freedoms.
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