An Award-Winning Journalist Had Factual Information That a Local Mining

question 73

Multiple Choice

An award-winning journalist had factual information that a local mining company had been exceeding allowable Canadian standards for environmental pollution.Despite the story's excellent sources and factual accounts,the newspaper editor pulled the story before it could run.According to Herman and Chomsky,why would the editor most likely have refused to publish the story?

• A) Newspapers generally do not publish stories that are political in content.
• B) The facts could not be appropriately checked for accuracy.
• C) The mining company contributes a lot of advertising revenue to the paper.
• D) The mining company would sue the newspaper.

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Definitions:

Shared Environmental Effects

Factors within the environment shared by siblings that contribute to their similarities, impacting their development and traits.

Nonshared Environmental Effects

The unique environment in which each child grows up, consisting of distinctive influences or influences that affect one child differently than another.

Birth Order

The order in which a person is born into their family, which is often believed to influence their personality and behavior.

Gender

The range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity, often based on social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.