The following questions refer to paragraphs 1-9 of "The Ballad of Balloon Boy" by Justin Peters (p. 355).
The author mentions by name and directly quotes different cable news
reporters and anchors in this passage in order to
O show how the reports in the field and the anchors in the studios
responded in significantly different ways to the unfolding story
highlight the diverse stylistic approaches that different reporters
and anchors took in their engagement with this story
clearly demonstrate which reporters and anchors he agreed with
and which he disagreed with, using their own words as evidence
offer a wide variety of different opinions on the topic so that he
could synergize and respond to them as a whole
demonstrate that this is a problem with cable news in general and
not with one particular reporter or anchor in particular