Which of the following scenarios demonstrates a journalist exercising compassion?
A. Harvey will not investigate a shooting because the relatives and witnesses are having a rough time emotionally.
B. Lloyd asks the father of a teenager who just died of a heroin overdose why his son was walking in a bad neighborhood late at night.
C. Andy tells an obese witness he will interview him because he thinks overweight people should get more exposure on television.
D. Marc pauses before speaking in order to reword a question he is about to ask the mother of a murder suspect so it seems less accusatory.
D. Marc pauses before speaking in order to reword a question he is about to ask the mother of a murder suspect so it seems less accusatory.
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