The fact that Americans today are likely to follow the news by briefly reading multiple headlines online rather than by reading longer news articles is referred to as

A) "browsing and breezing."
B) "searching and sampling."
C) "skimming and scanning."
D) "receiving and accepting."

Skimming is a technique of quickly browsing through the text to get a general idea of what the text is all about. Scanning is a technique of looking for specific details or information in a text. Both techniques are commonly used for reading online news articles, where people tend to read multiple headlines and summaries quickly rather than reading whole articles in-depth.