QUESTION TEXT: Because of the recent recession in Country A, most…
QUESTION TYPE: Paradox
PARADOX: Magazine ad revenues are down, and the most popular magazines face bankruptcy.
But more people are reading magazines, and there are more financially successful magazines than in the past.
ANALYSIS: LSAT questions often depend on subtle distinctions. There may be a difference between “the most widely read magazines” and magazines in general.
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- This could explain why revenues are down, but it doesn’t explain why some magazines are doing better than ever.
- Who cares about TV? It has nothing to do with why some magazines are failing and why some succeed. There’s no obvious link between TV
and magazines. - CORRECT. This explains it. Smaller magazines make money from circulation (readership), and circulation is up. So they’re profitable, even though ad revenues are down.
- This explains how people manage to read more magazines, despite hard times. But it doesn’t explain why more magazines are doing well.
- “More” is a very vague term. It could mean that 0.002% more magazines survived. And we don’t know how important the general interest magazine market is. This answer choice is meaningless.
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