GRE Question of the Day: Critical Resoning

JR
#1. June 30th, 2006, at 8:24 AM.

A) the media company’s CEO decides what stories are broadcast.

abhishek
#2. June 30th, 2006, at 9:58 AM.

A

Did
#3. April 14th, 2007, at 2:50 PM.

A

Reetu Singh
#4. March 24th, 2008, at 1:52 PM.

A

Deeks
#5. March 24th, 2008, at 9:06 PM.

A

deedee
#6. March 26th, 2008, at 12:04 AM.

C. every news story must be factually verifiable.

Whats the right answer?

kv
#7. April 7th, 2008, at 4:56 PM.

A

vineet
#8. July 21st, 2008, at 10:53 PM.

b

Vamsi Krishna Kanuri
#9. August 25th, 2008, at 8:36 AM.

A

Reasoning:

The argument clearly says that the CEO is interested in the number rather than whether the truth, which means that the facts are immaterial to the organization. The organization just needs to attract people. So “the media company’s CEO decides what stories are broadcast.” which doesn’t speak about facts is the right choice.

Pushpa
#10. August 25th, 2008, at 10:54 AM.

The argument above assumes that:
C) every news story must be factually verifiable.

Thats why every Local TV stations even have teams to identify false stories.

Arun
#11. August 25th, 2008, at 1:28 PM.

A to me

Sandeep
#12. August 25th, 2008, at 5:13 PM.

A

jaspreet
#13. August 25th, 2008, at 9:17 PM.

A

addy
#14. August 25th, 2008, at 9:18 PM.

C.. an assumption always supports the cnclsn of the passage yet shoul’dnt be stated in the passage(it bridges the gap btwn premise and cnclsn)

kapil
#15. August 25th, 2008, at 9:32 PM.

C
reasoning:”Local TV stations even have teams to identify false stories”.
this means its possible for news companies to know weather the partucular event is true or false i.e.every news story must be factually verifiable.

Deepak
#16. August 25th, 2008, at 10:46 PM.

A

shilpa
#17. August 25th, 2008, at 11:12 PM.

A

ravinder
#18. August 25th, 2008, at 11:55 PM.

c

The Don
#19. August 26th, 2008, at 12:13 AM.

C,

I originally thought A, but it appears the implication in the premises is that the CEO fiddle-faddled with their fact checkers, not directly the news stories themselves.

khushali
#20. August 26th, 2008, at 12:25 AM.

C

nothimpossible
#21. August 26th, 2008, at 1:01 AM.

C

Laura
#22. August 26th, 2008, at 3:49 AM.

A

Arun
#23. August 26th, 2008, at 7:26 AM.

A

nagaraj
#24. August 26th, 2008, at 10:22 AM.

C

bharath.ranga
#25. August 26th, 2008, at 4:06 PM.

What is the correct answer?

Shobhit Bhargava
#26. August 26th, 2008, at 5:29 PM.

B…

Rajib
#27. August 26th, 2008, at 7:11 PM.

I also figured out C…..Can the management reveal the correct answer ?

partenac
#28. August 27th, 2008, at 3:39 AM.

Where do we go to see the correct answer?

The Don
#29. August 29th, 2008, at 10:59 PM.

Would like to see the correct answer to t his…

Arkesh
#30. September 16th, 2008, at 2:46 PM.

I would like to know the correct answer. what is it ? ?
btw, i go with A.