Must Be True Questions - - Question 10

The press reports on political campaigns these days as if they were chess games. One candidate's campaign advisor mak...

jj April 27, 2018

Help!

Could you please provide an explanation for this question, thank you!

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Anita April 29, 2018

Absolutely, let's go through the answers to see if we can infer them from the prompt.

A) We don't know from the prompt what it is that the candidates would prefer, so we can't infer this.

B) We don't know what the press enjoys, and the prompt tells us it's the campaign advisors that are in the limelight, rather than the press, so we can't infer this.

C) Again, we're not entirely sure from this what the candidates believe of political campaigns, only that the author thinks that the press reports of the campaigns are similar to chess games.

D) The prompt doesn't address which is easier to report on. In fact, it may be easier to report on the policies, but the press chooses to report on the "chess" of the campaign because it sells more papers, or simply interests the writers more.

E) This we can infer. The prompt tells us that the public is deprived of the information they need to make informed decisions about the candidates, so we know that what is being reported, about the campaign advisors, isn't enough.

Does this help?