QUESTION TYPE: Identify the Conclusion
CONCLUSION: The power of governments over information needs to be curtailed.
REASONING: A free marketplace of ideas is important. Yet in many countries governments monopolize the publication of information. This crowds out other ideas.
ANALYSIS: This is a long stimulus, but not all that hard. Take the time to read questions like this twice; you will actually be able to answer them faster once you clearly understand the issues.
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- The journalist’s conclusion goes beyond that. He wants governments’ power over the media to be curtailed, so as to preserve the freedom of the marketplace of ideas.
- The journalist would agree, but that’s not their conclusion. Rather, it is a reason to reduce the power of governments.
- CORRECT. Yes. Everything else in the argument supports this idea.
- The journalist agrees, and uses this as a reason to support the reductions of governments’ media role. Even bad ideas need space to be heard.
- This is just a claim supporting the conclusion that governments’ media power ought to be reduced.
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