December 1995 LSAT Section 2 Question 22

Magazine editor: I know that some of our regular advertisers have been pressuring us to give favorable mention to ...

yckim2180 on May 1, 2021

Please help!

Is D the correct answer because the editor is talking about the damage from giving favorable mention to their products in their articles as opposed to an ad, which the director’s counter-argument focuses on?

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Emil-Kunkin on September 27 at 02:19AM

I think that D is correct because what the sales director says is not relevant to the argument of the editor, The editor recognizes that if people suspect the integrity of the magazine, this is bad for everyone since readers will presumably abandon it. Therefore, the reason that giving favorable treatment is bad for advertisers is that it will decrease the ability to sell magazines, which makes ads less useful. It does not really on the ads gaining by association with the editorial value of the articles.