Question ID:PT71 S1 Q2 Passage:Accountant: The newspaper industry habitually cites the rising cost of newsprint to explain falling profits. But when corrected for inflation, the cost of newsprint is no more than it was ten years ago. Far from being victims of high costs, newspapers have been benefiting from cheap newsprint for decades. The real threats to their profitability are falling circulation and falling advertising. Stem:The accountant's argument proceeds by Correct Answer Choice:DChoice A:reinterpreting a popular analogy in order to use that analogy to support an alternative conclusion Choice B:using economic data to raise doubts about the current effectiveness of a historically accepted approach Choice C:criticizing a newly developed method by demonstrating that a conventional method shows better results Choice D:challenging an explanation that has been given for a phenomenon in order to introduce a different explanation Choice E:calling into question a justification for a practice by showing how the same justification can be used to support a clearly undesirable practice