The transformation of newspapers into instruments of mass communication meant that
a. newspapers became much more expensive than ever before.
b. politicians no longer needed to be concerned with what was printed in any given newspaper’s opinion columns because there were so many competing newspapers.
c. politicians frequently found themselves bowing to powerful editors and publishers.
d. the public no longer got its political news from the newspapers.
c. politicians frequently found themselves bowing to powerful editors and publishers.
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