Argument Essay 11: The memorandum from the business manager of the listener-supported public radio station states,

The memorandum from the business manager of the listener-supported public radio station states that, Their Folk on the Air program devoted more time to Latino music and world music and less time to the Traditional American folk music, in order to broaden their support base. However in the recent months, many of the complaints have been received regarding the biasness of the program. More over an editorial has also been appeared in the local newspaper. Therefore in order to avoid further losses of the list News they should reallocated the time specified for both the programs.

The argument seems convincing at first, however close scrutiny reveals that there are certain flaws, which needs to be properly investigation. 

First of all the author states that, it has been a year since the on the air program has changed its allocation of time. But the complaints received are in the last month, which depicts that if there was an issue related to the time allocation the complaints would have been received soon after the time allocation has been changed. The complaint in the recent times reveals that there are issues other than the time allocation of the programs. There is possibility that, the quality of the broadcasting is not good therefore it has been complained.

Secondly the author suggests that the editorial has appeared in some local newspaper, which depicts that there is some limited population in any town who is not interested in the shifting of the program. The sample of the people who are not interested in the program shifting is very small, therefore on the basis of the such small sample we cannot say that the listener-supported public radio station would loss all of its additional supporters.

Third, complaints from the certain area or locality do not provide good evidence of the interest of the all other listeners. There is possibility that a high population of listeners is interested in Latino and world music as compared to American folk music. Therefore allocating less time to the American folk music may not result in loss of huge number of the listeners.

The author is unnecessarily compares the programs and claim that they should reallocate the time. He has to do more scholarship about why the people complain about the shifting of the program only in the last few months, provided there had not been any issue in the last year. Moreover receiving complaints in the last few months must have many other reasons other than the time allocation for the both programs.

In order to convince the reader the business manager needs to mention clear reason based on evidence, that why the listener-supported public radio station has received so many complaints. For this reason more scholarship is required.