The Growing Trend of Twenty-Four-Hour Cable News Stations Filling Time

The growing trend of twenty-four-hour cable news stations filling time with "talking head" pundits ______.

A) enables the stations to spend more money on producing "solid" journalism
B) allows these stations to appeal to the broadest possible audience by avoiding offending viewers
C) displays a continued rejection of the "partisan press" roots of American journalism
D) encourages civil conversation about American politics
E) None of the options are correct.