Many veteran journalists point to these two specific events as the cause of the pervasive and enduring credibility gap between the press and politicians:

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even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.  

for your question the answer would have to be france