The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station.
"Over the past year, our late-night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news. During this period, most of the complaints received from viewers were concerned with our station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with us. Therefore, in order to attract more viewers to our news programs and to avoid losing any further advertising revenues, we should expand our coverage of weather and local news on all our news programs."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument makes a number of unwarranted assumptions regarding the link between a greater tv audience and the the time devoted to weather and local news. If one considers just three of these unstated assumptions and ist implications, the conclusion of the argument would be strongly weakened.
The argument assumes that all the complaints received from viewers are related to the ratio between national news and local news. It doesn't shows any evidence that clarifies if it is possible that some of the complaitns were more about the actual content of the reports and opinions presented on the show than the amount of time devoted to local news. If an important amount of these customers were arguing any other kind of the program's problems, then the argument's strength is subtantially reduced.
Similarly, the argument conclusion's depends on the fact that all the advirtisers which had canceled their advertising for the program, did it because the program didn't present enough weather and local news. Perhaps some of the local businnesses were facing difficult financial times and could not afford the expenses for tv advertising. Others might have decided that tv advertising wasn't given enough economical benefits for the company. Or may be some of them just decided to change their advertising approach and made investments for more publicity on internet and social media.
Finally, the argument relies on the principle that in order to attract more viewers the only thing they need to do is to expand the time for presenting weather and local news. There is no evidence to assert that other kinds of measures could increase the program's rating as well. For instance, it is not evaluated that if changing the program format, if bringing new anchors and/or if inviting interesting guesses could be benefitial to the show.
To sum up, this argument relies heavily on its assumptions. Denying any of these assumptions resultas in an invalid conclusion. To strengthen the argument, the autor would need not to only adress these three pints but also to present robust and conclusive evidence that help establishing the link between the show's rating and its lack of weather and local news coverage.
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Sentence: The argument makes a number of unwarranted assumptions regarding the link between a greater tv audience and the the time devoted to weather and local news.
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Sentence: It doesn't shows any evidence that clarifies if it is possible that some of the complaitns were more about the actual content of the reports and opinions presented on the show than the amount of time devoted to local news.
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Sentence: If an important amount of these customers were arguing any other kind of the program's problems, then the argument's strength is subtantially reduced.
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Sentence: Similarly, the argument conclusion's depends on the fact that all the advirtisers which had canceled their advertising for the program, did it because the program didn't present enough weather and local news.
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Sentence: Perhaps some of the local businnesses were facing difficult financial times and could not afford the expenses for tv advertising.
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Sentence: For instance, it is not evaluated that if changing the program format, if bringing new anchors and/or if inviting interesting guesses could be benefitial to the show.
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Sentence: Denying any of these assumptions resultas in an invalid conclusion.
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Sentence: To strengthen the argument, the autor would need not to only adress these three pints but also to present robust and conclusive evidence that help establishing the link between the show's rating and its lack of weather and local news coverage.
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