When a news program begins the broadcast each day with a certain political story and continues to highlight this issue for several days, it suggests to the public that this political story is an important issue. Which function of agenda setting does this?

A. Priming
B. Sorting
C. Replaying
D. Factoring
E. Blogging


Answer: A

Political Science

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