Researchers Examined Major Newspaper Editorials and Opinion Commentaries for the 1994-2010

question 185

Multiple Choice

Researchers examined major newspaper editorials and opinion commentaries for the 1994-2010 era, most of them written by moderate or liberal commentators. They found:

• A) when media commentators discussed poverty among blacks they were likely to suggest that their poverty resulted from problematical individual causes, such as laziness, or from their buying into a so-called culture of poverty.
• B) conservative media commentators were more likely than liberal media commentators to suggest that poverty among blacks resulted from problematical individual causes, such as laziness.
• C) conservative media commentators were more likely then liberal media commentators to suggest that poverty among blacks resulted in a so-called culture of poverty.
• D) All the above

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