LSAT 112 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q2

LR Question 2 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Several companies will soon offer personalized electronic…

QUESTION TYPE: Weaken

CONCLUSION: Newspaper sales will decline once these electronic news services arrive.

REASONING: These services will lead people get their news faster and more efficiently.

ANALYSIS: This shows that this LSAT is a bit dated. This already happened in real life, and electronic news services (e.g. RSS readers, blogs) plus Craigslist did cause a huge decline in newspaper sales and revenue.

But, we have to weaken the argument anyway. The right answer points out that sometimes people don’t want super-specific news. It’s nice to idly browse.

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1. CORRECT. This is one reason newspaper sales still survive today despite the challenge from the internet. It can be nice to leaf through a paper.
2. This is to be expected: newspaper prices vary too. But this doesn’t explain why electronic news services won’t beat newspapers.
3. If 30% of people have never used newspapers then those people are irrelevant. The stimulus is talking about whether newspaper will lose already existing readers.
4. This strengthens the argument by showing that the electronic services won’t cost more.
5. This strengthens the argument:it will be easy to switch to electronic news services.