An example of misrepresentation is:
a. the promotion of Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act by columnist Armstrong Williams.
b. the Las Vegas Sun revealing Liberace’s struggle with AIDS weeks before his death.
c. James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces.
d. the printing of rape victim Nancy Ziegenmeyer’s name in The Des Moines Register.
ANSWER: c
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