Your friend is incredibly cynical about political parties, politicians, and incumbent political leaders. How might this be related to the effects of the media?
a. News reports feature a constant stream of negative messages about government and its ability to solve problems in the United States, which has turned her off politics.
b. The consistent conservative bias in the media has turned her off politics.
c. News reports about what government does are so optimistic that your friend thinks that they just cannot be real.
d. Your friend realizes that the mainstream political parties own most of the private media and therefore it cannot be trusted.
a
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