PrepTest 94+, Section 4, Question 9
Journalists often claim that their investigation of the private lives of political leaders is an effort to improve society by forcing the powerful to conform to the same standards of conduct as the less powerful. In reality, however, the tactic is detrimental to society. It makes public figures more concerned with mere appearances, and makes everyone else cynical about the character of their leaders.
Journalists often claim that their investigation of the private lives of political leaders is an effort to improve society by forcing the powerful to conform to the same standards of conduct as the less powerful. In reality, however, the tactic is detrimental to society. It makes public figures more concerned with mere appearances, and makes everyone else cynical about the character of their leaders.
Journalists often claim that their investigation of the private lives of political leaders is an effort to improve society by forcing the powerful to conform to the same standards of conduct as the less powerful. In reality, however, the tactic is detrimental to society. It makes public figures more concerned with mere appearances, and makes everyone else cynical about the character of their leaders.
Journalists often claim that their investigation of the private lives of political leaders is an effort to improve society by forcing the powerful to conform to the same standards of conduct as the less powerful. In reality, however, the tactic is detrimental to society. It makes public figures more concerned with mere appearances, and makes everyone else cynical about the character of their leaders.
The claim that journalistic investigation of the private lives of political leaders is an effort to improve society plays which one of the following roles in the argument?
It is a claim that the argument attempts to refute.
It mentions a justification that is sometimes offered for a practice that, the argument concludes, has undesirable consequences.
It is cited as evidence often given for an assertion that the argument concludes is false.
It describes a phenomenon that, according to the argument, is much less damaging to society than journalists often assume.
It gives an example of a phenomenon that the argument contends has very different effects from those it is generally assumed by everyone to have.
0 Comments