Which statement best describes the influence of the media on government? a. It educates voters by examining issues and candidates.
b. It supports the government by praising its actions and policies.
c. It keeps politicians from breaking laws by exposing their wrongdoings.
d. It shapes the actions of government by deciding which news stories to cover.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is