سوال ۱۱۴ کنکور ارشد مدیریت کسب‌وکار (MBA) ۱۴۰۰ — Passage 3 — summary: Paragraph 1 contrasts modern urgency wit

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Passage 3 — summary: Paragraph 1 contrasts modern urgency with early nineteenth-century newspapers’ emphasis on local coverage: an editor would wait for a report rather than send a journalist, publication could fit the editor’s social plans, and busy-week news could be held back for a quieter week. Papers also reused one another’s non-local reports without competitive concern because communication was slow. Paragraph 2 explains that foreign reports arrived by letter and ship before telegraph networks, while The Times of London maintained extensive correspondents to inform business readers about overseas politics relevant to trade and about shipping. Its January 9, 1845 issue included Cape Town reports already eight weeks old.

Why does the author provide Charles T. Congdon’s story about a particular editor in paragraph 1?

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To illustrate the point that newspapers in the nineteenth century were not especially concerned about providing up-to-date news

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To provide an example of a common misunderstanding about newspaper editors in the nineteenth century

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To explain nineteenth-century editors’ reluctance to report news that other papers would likely report

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To describe both the working life and the social life of an editor in the nineteenth century