A Series of Polls in 2003 Showed That People Who

question 4

Multiple Choice

A series of polls in 2003 showed that people who primarily got their news from the Fox News Channel were significantly more likely to believe that Iraq had played a part in the 9/11 attacks. Many people saw this as evidence of the way the media shaped public opinion, but some believed that those who already believed this simply gravitated to Fox. This is an example of

• A) textual poaching.
• B) encoding/decoding.
• C) reinforcement theory.
• D) agenda-setting theory.

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