An Award-Winning Journalist Had Information Indicating a Local Mining Company

Multiple Choice

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

A) because newspapers generally do not publish stories that are political in content
B) because the facts could not be appropriately checked for accuracy
C) because the mining company contributes a lot of advertising revenue to the paper
D) because the readers are not interested in exposé journalism