Accountant: The newspaper industry habitually cites the rising cost of ... ...

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.

The accountant’s argument proceeds by


(A)

reinterpreting a popular analogy in order to use that analogy to support an alternative conclusion


(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in PT71 (Dec 2013): Logical Reasoning A