Local Newspaper Reporting on Local Politics Is in Decline Because

question 74

Multiple Choice

 Local newspaper reporting on local politics is in decline because 

• A) circulation and advertising revenue are down. 
• B) no one reads newspapers anymore. 
• C) national news outlets have replaced local reporting. 
• D) there are too many reporters covering state and local politics to run them in the local papers. 
• E) local news is not important.

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Definitions:

Stereotype

Overgeneralized and oversimplified beliefs about a group of people based on their membership in that group.

Confirmation Bias

The propensity to explore, interpret, select, and revive information in ways that strengthen one's existing convictions or hypotheses.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate the influence of personal characteristics and underestimate the influence of situational factors in explaining others' behavior.

Illusory Correlation

A cognitive bias wherein people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations.