LSAT-4-3-9

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. 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. Therefore, since this practice avoids the more serious misrepresentation that would occur if people’s exact words were quoted but their ideas only partially expressed, it is entirely defensible.

Which one of the following is a questionable technique used in the argument?

(A) answering an exaggerated charge by undermining the personal authority of those who made
that charge

(B) claiming that the prestige of a profession provides ample grounds for dismissing
criticisms of that profession

(C) offering as an adequate defense of a practice an observation that discredits only one of
several possible alternatives to that practice

(D) concludingthat a practice is right on the grounds that it is necessary

(E) using the opponent’s admission that a practice is sometimes appropriate as conclusive
proof that that practice is never inappropriate

答案是C.我想问的是，E的后半段应该也是对的，错估计错在oppnent's admission。可是这个oppnent's admission指的是原文中的哪处呢？？

谢谢。

Generally, opponents refer those who hold different view from the arguer's. Thus, in this stimulus, the only rival side against the arguer is those who decried tailoring news resport as a form of misrepresentation.

If so, E appears to be absurd in that the opponent has never admiited anything in this stimulus.

On the other hand, if the second half refers to the admission by the arguer that, in order to present clearly, it is neceesary to fabricate,  this reasoning technique hardly can be called as questionable. In terms the practice itself, if it does effectively prevent a misrepresentation, it will certainly be always right (never inappropriate).

However, the key in this question is that the cited problem (people's ideas not be expressed clearly in absence of fabrication) is not the only consequence following from an alternative practice-reporting the exact words, other possible results including 1)people's exact words were quoted and their ideas were fully expressed, 2) people's words were tailored in light of media's view and their ideas were not fully expressed.... therefore, C identifies this mistake exactly.

If the word" rarely" is changed into " never" in the second sentense, then the choice will be D.

妙！！！感谢点拨！呵呵~