To characterize the news media as businesses

a. does not discredit their integrity as suppliers of vital civic information.
b. discredits their integrity as suppliers of vital civic information.
c. demonstrates that the media simply report news as presented to them by politicians.
d. suggests that media elites, pollsters, and politicians form a classic iron triangle that is still vibrant today.


a. does not discredit their integrity as suppliers of vital civic information.

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