Which of the following statements about a message’s meaning is true?

The meaning of a message resides in the document, presentation, or visual that is created.

Attitudes, education, experience, and contexts shape interpretations of messages.

Readers viewers and listeners will all have the same interpretations of a message’s meaning.

It does not matter if a person does not understand the meaning of a message as long as the message sender understands its meaning.

My answer is #2 attitudes, education.

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I agree.
I agree.

Many years ago a newspaper editor told us that people read with far more bias than reporters write.