The Media's Emphasis on the Slowly Improving American Economic Situation

question 3

Multiple Choice

The media's emphasis on the slowly improving American economic situation in 2012 rather than the record number of long-term unemployed Americans is an example of __________.

• A) investigative journalism
• B) agenda setting
• C) policy entrepreneurship
• D) narrowcasting

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