The Financial Times Magazine devoted two pages

Question

The Financial Times Magazine devoted two pages to the stock market crash of 1929; however, the same magazine covered 1985’s Black Monday with 25 pages.

The best explanation for this difference is that

A. the crash of 1929 was viewed as more important than Black Monday.

B. the Financial Times Magazine regretted their underreporting of the 1929 crash and did not wish to make the same mistake.

C. the implications of the 1929 crash were more immediately apparent.

D. the size of the magazine had increased so editors could devote more space to the 1985 story.

E. the press in 1929 devoted more time to covering stories about successes instead of failures.

arjunb9 · Answer

I am confused between D & E. 
According to D) , the size of the magazine had increased so editors could devote more space to 1985 Black Monday, but logical reasoning of magazine size constraint just does not justify why 1985 event was more covered than 1929's.
However E) gives more clarity that during 1920's press devoted more time to cover success stories than failure's, therefore the content available on the 1920 event would be less and henceforth the magazine had only 2 pages devoted to 1929 event.
I think its E.

TithiMarodia · Answer

Hey, can someone please help me here

I was confused between B and D
Looking back at the question stem it says that "the same magazine" that clearly indicates there is no change in the magazine. 
so how come we eliminate B? just because there is no mentioning about how the financial times felt about reporting?

aarav293 · Answer

Can anyone explain why D is selected over E?? As there is no such specific mention of size issue of the magazine!

charanrana · Answer

OA :

Your job in this question is to find the most reasonable explanation for the huge difference in coverage for the two financial disasters. The secret here is simply to read through the choices and ask yourself: Does this make sense, and how reasonable is this explanation? 
After doing this for each choice, you should find that, although not perfect, choice D is the best choice: The magazine had grown in size and could therefore cover the 1985 crash with more pages.

YoyoDuo · Answer

I was confused between option D and E. But since it was not given which article was written first, so I eliminated option D. How is answer option D and how to negate option E.

RonTargetTestPrep · Answer

This is a 'trick' objection that most people would not think about—and, more importantly, that goes against a common-sense reading.
This problem doesn't look official, but it does follow GMAC's convention of staying in accordance with common sense.  There are NO "TRICK QUESTIONS" on the GMAT! Always ignore any interpretation of a text that violates everyday common sense.

In this case, the common-sense reading is that the  Financial Times  is a periodical that covers   current events   in the financial sector.
Furthermore, the second half of the passage talks about how the magazine   covered   the crash of 1985. "Covering" an event is doing journalism on that event  when it happens .

The only circumstance under which you could feasibly read this passage as talking about two articles that were published at totally random times—i.e., not in 1929 and 1985 respectively—would be if the passage specifically mentioned a  history  magazine (or some other thing that specifies historical perspective, e.g.,  historiography, retrospective,  etc.)

Mavisdu1017 · Answer

RonTargetTestPrep  hello expert, could you explain why B is wrong? Much thanks.

babyulikeit · Answer

Mavisdu1017  not the  expert  but I'll take a shot:

B is wrong because there's no way for us to know whether 2 pages were enough or not for the 1929 report so we cannot say it was an underreporting. What if in 1929 they didn't have graphs and in 1985 they had 24 graphs on 24 pages and that was the only difference, but both reports were well reported and so on.. rather than the assumption of underreporting.

Hope I helped.

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