Media Scholars Have Often Investigated How Violence in the Media

Media scholars have often investigated how violence in the media relates to violence in the real world. Politicians have inaccurately tried to use media research in various attempts to get media banned based when there is little research to support their claims. Which common error do politicians in this example illustrate?

A) an empirical leap
B) a hasty generalization
C) a theoretical generalization
D) an empirical end _{e. a theoretical advance}