Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The journalistic practice of fabricating remarks after an interview an

Understanding the argument - ­
The journalistic practice of fabricating remarks after an interview and printing them within quotation marks, as if they were the interviewee’s own words, has been decried as a form of unfair misrepresentation. - Background info. 

However, people’s actual spoken remarks rarely convey their ideas as clearly as does a distillation of those ideas crafted, after an interview, by a skilled writer. - Opinion. An analogy - the participants in the chef competition are asked to create a fresh fruit salad. One of them uses canned fruits and justifies his reasoning by saying they are much better than having no fruits. This kind of reasoning is flawed. It discredits one alternative, i.e., using no fruits, but it misses other possible alternative options, i.e., fresh fruits, a combination of fresh and canned fruits, and so on. Likewise, in this option, the author discredits one alternative i.e., "actual spoken remarks rarely convey their ideas," and
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 11 Jan 2020, 06:17 • Replies 4 • Views 5644

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