Award-Winning Journalist Jean Collins Has Factual Information That Local Mining

Award-winning journalist Jean Collins has factual information that local mining corporation Big Mine Inc. has been exceeding allowable Canadian standards for environmental pollution. Despite the story's excellent sources and factual accounts, the newspaper's editor decides not to publish the story. According to Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, why would the editor most likely have refused to publish the story?

A) because newspapers generally do not publish stories that are political in content
B) because the facts cannot be checked appropriately for accuracy
C) because Big Mine Inc. likely contributes a lot of advertising revenues to the paper
D) because Big Mine Inc. will sue the newspaper

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