Q: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
Sentence 1: News Quiz responses typically offer a reliable guide to what America is thinking (if only by providing sullen and resentful counterexamples), but from time to time participants make small errors of--well, fact would be too vulgar a word; let's say emphasis. Sentence 2: America's thoughts can be drawn from talk shows.
A:
slate