Barbour and Wright maintain that American democracy is ______.

a. improved by decreased regulation of media ownership
b. unaffected by feeding frenzies because the public has grown wary of their impacts
c. enhanced by the work of bloggers, spin doctors, and pundits
d. weakened by the media if they make political accountability more difficult
e. typically unaffected by lapses in political accountability


d. weakened by the media if they make political accountability more difficult

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