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GMAT Question of the Day: Critical Resoning

The increase in the number of false new stories revealed to be false serves to strengthen the argument that the media company CEO’s first priority is audience size over reporting the truth. Local TV stations even have teams to identify false stories. The argument above assumes that:
A) the media company’s CEO decides what stories are [...]

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Written by Take GMAT Team on February 4th, 2010 with 40 comments.
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The increase in the number of false new stories revealed to be false serves to strengthen the argument that the media company CEO’s first priority is audience size over reporting the truth. Local TV stations even have teams to identify false stories. The argument above assumes that:

A) the media company’s CEO decides what stories are broadcast.
B) news stories exposed as fabrications are a recent phenomenon.
C) every news story must be factually verifiable.
D) fact checking is more comprehensive for small news organizations than major ones.
E) Until last year, news companies did not even admit to broadcasting fictional stories.

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Written by Take GMAT Team on February 4th, 2010 with 40 comments.
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#1. June 30th, 2006, at 8:24 AM.

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

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

A

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

A

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

A

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Deeks
#5. March 24th, 2008, at 9:06 PM.

A

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

C. every news story must be factually verifiable.

Whats the right answer?

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

A

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

b

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com 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.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com 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.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Arun
#11. August 25th, 2008, at 1:28 PM.

A to me

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Sandeep
#12. August 25th, 2008, at 5:13 PM.

A

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com jaspreet
#13. August 25th, 2008, at 9:17 PM.

A

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#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)

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#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.

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

A

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com shilpa
#17. August 25th, 2008, at 11:12 PM.

A

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com ravinder
#18. August 25th, 2008, at 11:55 PM.

c

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com 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.

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

C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com nothimpossible
#21. August 26th, 2008, at 1:01 AM.

C

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

A

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Arun
#23. August 26th, 2008, at 7:26 AM.

A

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com nagaraj
#24. August 26th, 2008, at 10:22 AM.

C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com bharath.ranga
#25. August 26th, 2008, at 4:06 PM.

What is the correct answer?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Shobhit Bhargava
#26. August 26th, 2008, at 5:29 PM.

B…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Rajib
#27. August 26th, 2008, at 7:11 PM.

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

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com partenac
#28. August 27th, 2008, at 3:39 AM.

Where do we go to see the correct answer?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com The Don
#29. August 29th, 2008, at 10:59 PM.

Would like to see the correct answer to t his…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com 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.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Kuldeep Sharma
#31. November 12th, 2008, at 12:24 AM.

c

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#32. February 4th, 2010, at 1:34 AM.

OPTION:B

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Jorge (Peru)
#33. February 4th, 2010, at 2:15 AM.

C) every news story must be factually verifiable

TV stations have teams available to verify

With ans “A)the media company’s CEO decides what stories are broadcast.” you cannot infer if the CEO is the final decition makers to which stories might be broadcasted.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Shikha
#34. February 4th, 2010, at 4:42 PM.

Can sumone plz tell us the correct answer??

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com aryan
#35. February 5th, 2010, at 3:17 AM.

C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Matt M
#36. February 5th, 2010, at 4:58 AM.

A

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Basant
#37. February 7th, 2010, at 3:18 PM.

i also think it’s C.. take GMAT team please provide with the correct answer..

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com sarah
#38. March 3rd, 2010, at 7:23 AM.

B

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#39. March 3rd, 2010, at 7:23 AM.

looks like this is an old thread….where can i find correct anwser?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Punith reddy
#40. March 6th, 2010, at 3:04 PM.

C

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