The Textbook Uses the News Coverage of Urban Illegal Drug

question 40

Multiple Choice

The textbook uses the news coverage of urban illegal drug problems as an example of ______.

• A) how the amount of coverage a social problem gets in the news is tied to the actual severity of that problem
• B) how journalists overall are good at providing context for ongoing social problems
• C) how news coverage can fail to offer strong continuing coverage of long-term social problems, considering them old news
• D) how journalists can go undercover to get information
• E) how journalists all tend to cover the same topics over and over again

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