Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1.Yet even the most extreme crime, arson, is subject to differing levels of interest.
2.There are many “outsiders”—“the threatening outcast, the fearsome stranger, the excluded and the embittered”
3.Law can be impartial and objective in cases which generate feverish media and public debate.
4.The media is a window on the world.
5.The relationship between media and audience in defining the parameters of social (in)tolerance and social control is very simple.


1.false
2.true
3.false
4.false
5.false

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