medium · LSAT Reading Comprehension
The author argues that the rise of digital streaming has not destroyed the music industry but has instead forced it to evolve. While total revenue from physical sales has plummeted, the industry has seen a massive increase in live performance revenue and sync licensing. The author concludes that the 'democratization' of music production is a net positive for artists.
Which one of the following most accurately describes the structural pattern of the passage?
- A widely held assumption is contested, evidence is brought forward to undercut it, and the author closes with a favorable assessment.
- A general organizing principle is announced plainly at the outset and then illustrated through an orderly sequence of concrete examples.
- Two rival accounts are laid carefully side by side while the author deliberately withholds any final judgment between the two of them.
- A single technological development is traced step by step through time without the author ever arriving at any overall evaluative verdict.
- An opposing view is conceded as largely correct, and on that basis the author reluctantly adopts a markedly more pessimistic closing stance.
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