Advertisers are often criticized for their unscrupulous manipulation of people's tastes and wants. There is evidence,...

The only problem I have with C being correct is that stimulus says the advertisers are motivated by moral as well as financial considerations. Thus leading me to infer the motivation of profit and morality aren't mutually exclusive. C seems to point to the advertisers being motivated by moral reasons and not financial reasons since they are losing money by withdrawing. I chose A instead because that could strengthen the idea that they left and went to another family newspaper thus allowing us to infer they made that decision for both moral and financial considerations rather than one or the other. Maybe I am going too far in such an inference but I wanted to see what you guys had to say about this line of reasoning. Thanks.