The correct answer is option D. A newspaper headlines a front-page story about a debated political issue is an example of the media helping to shape the public agenda. It is known that mass media has the ability to influence which topics belong, or not, in the public agenda. When media outlets decide to cover a specific topic, they are giving this topic relevance. The stories that are the most covered in media, are the ones that the public will consider most relevant and therefore they will become a part of the public agenda. Sometimes different media outlets cover different issues, because they have different interests and they want to shape the public agenda around those interests.
