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ID: DSAT-RW-58
Section: Digital SAT Reading & Writing (RW) - Broadly Reading - Craft and Structure
Topic: Cross-Text Connections
Difficulty level: Medium

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Text 1

Photo essays are increasingly popular in news outlets, but they should not be classified as journalism. By definition, journalism conveys information through language alone; photo essays communicate through images and use language only sparingly, in captions and short blurbs. Readers experience a photo essay as a sequence of pictures rather than as written reporting, which makes the form closer to gallery art than to journalism. In this view, the core of journalism is extended prose that explains events and evidence, so photo essays fall outside that category.

Text 2

Photo essays present their reporting through both language and images. Without captions, sequencing notes, and short text blocks, readers would not know who is pictured, what happened, or why it matters. The account emerges from the interaction of text and image. Moreover, acclaimed photo essays in major newspapers include writing that meets the standards of careful reporting and clear style. Therefore, photo essays qualify as journalistic work.

Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to the overall argument presented in Text 1?

ABy arguing that journalism is not confined to prose alone and that photo essays, which use captions and short text to convey essential facts, satisfy accepted journalistic standards.

BBy acknowledging that Text 1 correctly identifies a universal weakness in photo essays, namely that they lack sufficient language to report facts and therefore fail to meet journalistic standards.

CBy suggesting that some photo essays are harder to follow than Text 1 admits, which complicates public reception, but leaves them better treated as a distinct visual form, not as journalism.

DBy agreeing that photo essays lack rigorous reporting and writing comparable to standard articles and should therefore be regarded primarily as visual art rather than as journalism in professional contexts.

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