LSAT Question Explanation

PT 108, Section 3, Question 20

Disagree

Explanation

Sarah indicates that in choosing what is newsworthy, reporters are interpreting the news.

Ramon says that reporters should never interpret the news, but that they do deem certain things newsworthy. He is concerned about how they deliver the facts. It seems that Ramon thinks deeming stories newsworthy is not a form of interpretation.

Answer choices

(A)

Sarah certainly thinks this, but we don't know about Ramon. It's possible that Ramon thinks reporters always interpret the news when they try to deliver the facts. Maybe he thinks they are biased when they deliver the news stories.

(B)

Sarah and Ramon seem to agree that reporters do this. It's somewhat unclear if either Sarah or Ramon thinks that they should do this.

(C)

Neither Sarah nor Ramon indicates what they think reporter's primary responsibility is.

(D)

Similar to (B) it seems that Sarah and Ramon both agree that reporters do this, and it's not explicitly indicated if they think reporters should do this.

(E)

Sarah certainly agrees with this, while Ramon seemingly doesn't. He says reporters shouldn't interpret the news when they deliver the facts of the story, but seems fine with the practice of deeming certain stories newsworthy.

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