All five newspapers rely the same data source, so all are _______ subject to the same filtering.
Is it really "likewise" I have to stick with? It sounds odd...
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Sign up to join this communityAll five newspapers rely the same data source, so all are _______ subject to the same filtering.
Is it really "likewise" I have to stick with? It sounds odd...
To me likewise is redundant with same, unless your context clearly indicates that one given filtering can be applied in different ways.
As a result, I would simply skip likewise and write: All five newspapers rely on the same data source, so all are subject to the same filtering.
I would use "inherently" in this case.
This would help to convey that, due simply to the fact that they use the same data source, it is expected and usual that they are subject to the same filtering.
Just a different thought. With the subject being the data source, there are a lot of adverbs that can be injected into the sentence. The word "likewise" does not fit in the blank spot in the sentence. However, maybe you could write the sentence as
All five newspapers rely (on) the same data source. Likewise, all newspapers are subject to the same filtering.
The sentence is understandable with likewise, but I have some reservations about using it that way. "Likewise" emphasizes how the other four are the same as the first. That image is slightly incongruous with "All", which treats all five newspapers as a unified group.
You don't really need any adverb there, but if you want to one for emphasis, I would say
All five newspapers rely on the same data source, so all are equally subject to the same filtering.
Arguably, "equally" and "same" are somewhat redundant.
(Your original sentence was missing a preposition. "Rely" is an intransitive verb.)
All five newspapers rely on the same data source, so all are similarly subject to the same filtering.
If the objective is to emphasize the fluidity of the entire enterprise, then using the alliteration of similarly and same could be useful. Otherwise, the subsequent @Spare1Rib4me is probably the most correct in that it is simpler:
All newspapers rely on the same data, hence they are all subject to the same filtering.
In terms of the most informative answer regarding grammar, @200_success provided a good summary except equally may be too general:
All five newspapers rely on the same data source, so all are equally subject to the same filtering.
Since we are talking about specific newspapers which are subject to filtering, we could reword as: Newspapers are similar subjects to the filter (not the same or equal from the filters perspective). In the context of the sentence this could be changed to "similarly subject."
There is a nice table of Conjunctive Adverbs and the Relation They Indicate here http://englishmistakeswelcome.com/conjunctions.htm
You can skip repeating "same" and still mean the same:
All five newspapers rely on the same data source, so they are subject to similar filtering.
Since all five newspapers rely on the same data source, they are subject to similar filtering.