(A) carefully checked the validity of everything they published.
(B) focused on satire, often prioritizing political cartoons over news stories.
(C) ** sensationalized the news by stretching the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
(D) only reported on domestic affairs, ignoring events going on outside of the United States.
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -The advent of new technology in early nineteenth-century America-steam-driven printing presses, machine-made paper, steam railroads, and the electric telegraph-also abetted the remarkable communications revolution that was already under way.
Concept note-2: -The 1800s. There were already several hundred newspapers in the U.S. by 1800, and that number would grow dramatically as the century wore on. Early on, papers were still very partisan, but gradually they became more than simply mouthpieces for their publishers. Newspapers were also growing as an industry.
Concept note-3: -In 1800 there were 200 newspapers being published in the United States. By 1860 there were 3000. Many of the new urban papers that were founded in the 1830s and 40s reached unprecedented circulation numbers.
Concept note-4: -The first printing press made entirely out of iron appeared around 1800 in England and is attributed to Charles Mahon, the third Earl of Stanhope. The power and durability of the Stanhope press allowed printers to get 200 pulls per hour – each ‘pull’ being a pressed side of a paper.