Question

Every year Project Censored posts a list of the twenty-five most censored news stories. These stories are "censored" not in the sense that the media are legally prohibited from covering them but rather in the sense that most major media outlets have systematically ignored them and, in the process, determined what the public will think about. What theory explains this?

Answer 1

Answer:

Agenda-setting theory

Explanation:

Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the theory that best explains this situation is Agenda-setting theory. This is a theory developed by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw, and describes how the media chooses the importance of certain topics of the public agenda. Which since they determined that the stories in this scenario were not important enough they were not shown and then considered censored.