16. Which of the following best completes the passage below?
the most serious flaw in television’s coverage of election campaigns is its tendency to focus on the horse-race side of politics—that is, to concentrate on the question “Who’s winning?” at the expense of substantive coverage of the issues and the candidates’ positions on them. The endless interviews with campaign managers, discussions of campaign strategies, and, especially, the obsession with opinion polls have surrounded elections with the atmosphere of a football game or a prizefight. To reform this situation, a first step might well be______
(A) a shortening of the length of election campaigns to a period of six weeks
(B) a stringent limit on campaign spending
(C) a reduction in the television coverage of opinion polls during election campaigns
(D) the publication and distribution of voter-education literature to inform the public about each candidate’s position on the major issues（C）
(E) a limit on the length and number of political advertisements broadcast on television
答案：C。请问这道题为什么是C而不是D呢？原文是攻击说the most serious flaw in television’s coverage of election campaigns is its concentration on the question “Who’s winning?”,所以根据这点可以理解C是正确的。但是后面紧跟着说 at the expense of substantive coverage of the issues and the candidates’ positions on them.这句话是不是可以理解为报道牺牲了掉那些本质的关于议题和选手们的立场的内容？要是这样看的话D似乎也有道理，不过D中的 the publication and distribution of voter-education literature 似乎有点古怪，好像是无关内容。是不是应该这样理解呢？还是D有什么更本质的逻辑漏洞呢？请指教～
The most serious flaw in "television's"....
"The publication and distribution of ...literature" is NOT the "television's" business.
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