<span>A. Private companies--most of the media sources in the US are owned by private companies or individuals.
The US has freedom of the press which means the government has no ownership or stake in media sources. As a democracy, citizens rely on the fair reporting of private media sources to reveal issues within the country in particular the government. However, being private they are also for-profit organizations which means big headlines makes a media source more money for the company. </span>
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
What the newspaper reporter meant when he wrote that "flinty hearts were pierced and cold ones melted by his eloquence," was that Frederick Douglass gave a great speech full of meaning and eloquence. That is why the reporters used figurative language to express that the speech was so powerful that the stern people were moved and even passive people felt it. Douglass delivered his speech at the Massachusetts anti-Slavery Society Convention. Douglass had only 23 years when he delivered this speech on the island of Nantucket.
Answer:
if it was the moral and fair thing to do
if it would punish the Southern rebels
if it could be deemed necessary
Explanation:
It was on a quiz of mine, and I got it right.
The answer is a U.S mission to intervene in the affairs of Caribbean nations.