Research has found that newspapers have a tendency to give significantly more coverage to health risks such as reckless driving than their actual mortality rates would warrant while underreporting health risks of much higher consequences such as tobacco use, thus exhibiting

A. sensationalism.
B. tabloid journalism.
C. yellow journalism.
D. reverse sensationalism.


Answer: D

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