The Valerie Plame Affair Is Important Because It Illustrates

The Valerie Plame affair is important because it illustrates

A) how prominent political figures inevitably fail to influence media coverage on important events.
B) how selection bias is much less important than ideological bias in understanding media coverage.
C) how the preferences of better educated and more affluent segments of the audience have little influence over the content of media coverage.
D) the declining homogenization of national news since passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
E) how prominent political figures can manipulate news coverage and secure the publication of stories that serve their purposes through leaking information to journalists.