Research has found that much of the partisan bias that viewers detect when watching television news is attributable to
a. the way television anchors lead into news stories.
b. the facial expressions that television reporters use to signal whether they agree or disagree with something a newsmaker has said or done.
c. the order in which stories are presented on television.
d. the pictures that accompany the words spoken on newscasts.
e. the partisan preferences of the viewers themselves, which leads them to see negative coverage of their party as biased and to see negative coverage of the other party as the truth.
Answer: e