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20 Nov 2018, 06:15
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VeritasKarishma, Thank you so much. Okay, I'm waiting for your feedback for this ^^ question. God be with you.
22 Nov 2018, 00:42
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Hello! Could you help me with this one? OA is C
Magazine Publisher: Our magazine does not have a liberal bias. It is true that when a book review we had commissioned last year turned out to express distinctly conservative views, we did not publish it until we had also obtained a second review that took a strongly liberal position. Clearly, however, our actions demonstrate not a bias in favor of liberal views but rather a commitment to a balanced presentation of diverse opinions.
Determining which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the cogency of the magazine publisher's response?
A) Whether any other magazines in which the book was reviewed carried more than one review of the book
B) Whether the magazine publishes unsolicited book reviews as well as those that it has commissioned
C) Whether in the event that a first review commissioned by the magazine takes a clearly liberal position the magazine would make any efforts to obtain further reviews
D) Whether the book that was the subject of the two reviews was itself written from a clearly conservative or a clearly liberal point of view
E) Whether most of the readers of the magazine regularly read the book reviews that the magazine publishes
When I first saw it, I was quite confused about ???our magazine is not liberal??? while the review is completely conservative. It makes more sense to me if the first sentence is "our magazine is not conservative-biased".
I guess the conclusion is that "a balanced presentation of diverse opinions." So the right answer should be C, to see if the first review is liberal, the magazine would bother to look for a conservative view.
Magazine Publisher: Our magazine does not have a liberal bias. It is true that when a book review we had commissioned last year turned out to express distinctly conservative views, we did not publish it until we had also obtained a second review that took a strongly liberal position. Clearly, however, our actions demonstrate not a bias in favor of liberal views but rather a commitment to a balanced presentation of diverse opinions.
Determining which of the following would be most useful in evaluating the cogency of the magazine publisher's response?
A) Whether any other magazines in which the book was reviewed carried more than one review of the book
B) Whether the magazine publishes unsolicited book reviews as well as those that it has commissioned
C) Whether in the event that a first review commissioned by the magazine takes a clearly liberal position the magazine would make any efforts to obtain further reviews
D) Whether the book that was the subject of the two reviews was itself written from a clearly conservative or a clearly liberal point of view
E) Whether most of the readers of the magazine regularly read the book reviews that the magazine publishes
When I first saw it, I was quite confused about ???our magazine is not liberal??? while the review is completely conservative. It makes more sense to me if the first sentence is "our magazine is not conservative-biased".
I guess the conclusion is that "a balanced presentation of diverse opinions." So the right answer should be C, to see if the first review is liberal, the magazine would bother to look for a conservative view.
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Hey Rebekah,
The first sentence is correct. Think about it: A magazine commissions a book review. The reviewer expresses conservative views. The magazine doesn't publish the review. It asks another reviewer to review. The other reviewer gives liberal views. Now the magazine publishes both.
Does this mean that the magazine has a liberal bias? Perhaps. One could think that It prefers to publish liberal material. It did not publish the conservative view alone. Since it got a conservative review, it chose to get another review which was liberal and then published both.
Now the publisher is defending the magazine's stand. He says that we do not have a liberal bias. We like to maintain a balance.
Now what would tell you whether the magazine has a liberal bias or not? Say it commissions a review for another book. The review is quite liberal. Does the magazine publish it and gets done with it? If yes, then it did not maintain the balance. Then it has a liberal bias. But if in that case too, it commissions another review (which is assumably conservative) and then publishes both, then yes, it does maintain balance. This is what (C) says and hence is correct.
