Prompt: "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

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Prompt: "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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.”

The argument states that over the past year, the late-night news program of a television station has devoted increased time to national news and lessen the time for weather and local news. It claims that due to this they have got many complaints from viewers who are concerned with the station's coverage of weather and local news. In addition to this the station manager also claims that due to this reason local businesses that used to advertise during late-night news program have canceled their advertising contracts with them. Further the manager claims that in order to avoid losing any further...

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