Question

Critical Question: What are the descriptive assumptions? find important assumptions made by the author. first to determine the conclusion and the reasons.

Passage: Should it be legal for newspaper and television reporters to refuse to reveal their confidential sources? Indeed it should. The reporter-informant relationship is, after all, similar to those of priest and penitent, lawyer and client, physician and patient---all of which have a degree of privacy under the law. Moreover, if that relationship were not protected, the sources of information needed by the public would dry up.

Answer 1

Descriptive assumptions: It is a non stated belief that of how the world is or how it will become.

It is mainly based on facts. Tha author belief about the things will happen or how they are. Value is not considered so important.

Assumptions made by author

The assumptions are given importance of how the things have happened or in which situation it happened irregardless of the values.

Traditional thinking is not given so importance.

Any reports that the reporters give are testified infront of the grand jury. But the reporters can keep their sources as confidential cause it is the matter of fact that the information will then be disclosed to everyone and the reporters will leave their authencticity. It is like a code of conduct that we have to trust them and should let them do their workl. They are the media after all who is responsible to get the facts out. Their stories are later on tested by the grand jury. But as we don. ask the other professionals that how do you know that particular thing we should be giving up that space to reporters too. Like we don't want a magician to reveal his trick reporters too shouldn't be asked to reveal their confidential sources. If thew information provided by them is not truthful it can be later on checked by the jury.