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Verbal·Expression of Ideas·Rhetorical Synthesis
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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • Documentary TV programs in the slow TV genre consist of uninterrupted broadcasts of ordinary events in real time.
  • MORA: Zeichner is a German slow TV program.
  • The 45-minute-long program documented an artist making a pencil drawing during a train journey.
  • It first aired in 2016.
  • Slow TV has been called “the world’s most boring television.”
  • American journalist Nathan Heller praises it, writing that “it affords a visceral kind of armchair tourism.”
The student wants to use a quotation to refute the claim that slow TV programs are boring. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A
With broadcasts of ordinary events, like artists at work, occurring in real time, slow TV just might be “the world’s most boring television.”
B
Far from boring, slow TV programs can provide a “visceral kind of armchair tourism,” as Heller puts it, whereby viewers can watch artists at work in real time.
C
MORA: Zeichner can afford a “visceral kind of armchair tourism,” as Heller puts it.
D
While some have praised slow TV for affording “a visceral kind of armchair tourism,” others have called it “the world’s most boring television.”