Identify the Type of Fallacy in the Following Passage

question 26

Short Answer

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage.
From a letter to the editor: "The news media can never be trusted. Shortly before the Geneva summit, the Washington Post decided that a news scoop concerning a confidential letter from the secretary of defense to the president was more important news than a coordinated posture by our negotiating team."

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Definitions:

Central Processing Unit

The primary component of a computer that performs most of the processing inside a computer, executing instructions from programs.

Operating System

The software that manages hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs, acting as an intermediary between users and the computer hardware.

Memory Management

The process of controlling and coordinating computer memory, involving the allocation and deallocation of memory blocks to programs to ensure optimal performance.

Input/Output Activities

Operations in computer programming that involve reading data from an external source or writing data to an external destination.