1. In context, the sentence, “Newspapers often took liberties when reporting the facts - not an uncommon practice in 19th-century reporting culture, which focused more on crime and vice than accuracy...” can best be interpreted as?

The media would often get help from the government when reporting on criminal cases.
To clarify that the media had no freedom of the press during this time period.
Implying that the media focused on the crime committed or sensationalism instead of reality.
Suggest that the media uses inductive reasoning.


2. Which of the following isn’t an example of logos?
“The facts of the case are fairly straightforward: During an oppressive heat wave in August 1892, prominent Fall River residents Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered”
“It didn’t take long after Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her father and stepmother for the public to start obsessing over the case…. Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered in their home; each had received multiple blows to the head with a hatchet.”