Award-Winning Journalist Jean Collins Has Factual Information That a Local

question 75

Multiple Choice

Award-winning journalist Jean Collins has factual information that a local mining corporation has been exceeding allowable Canadian standards for environmental pollution. Despite the story's excellent sources and factual accounts, the newspaper's editor pulls the story before it has run. According to Herman and Chomsky, why would the editor most likely have refused to publish the story?

• A) because newspapers generally do not publish stories that are political in content
• B) because the facts cannot be checked appropriately for accuracy
• C) because the corporation likely contributes a lot of advertising revenues to the paper
• D) because the corporation will sue the newspaper

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