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

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A) Newspapers generally do not publish stories that are political in content.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.