Critical Reasoning (CR) | Teacher: Journalists who conceal the identity of the sources they quot

Teacher: Journalists who conceal the identity of the sources they quote stake their professional reputations on what may be called the logic of anecdotes. This is so because the statements reported by such journalists are dissociated from the precise circumstances in which they were made and thus will be accepted for publication only if the statements are high in plausibility or originality or interest to a given audience - precisely the properties of a good anecdote.

Student: But what you are
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