Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Both are correct and the reason rightly explains the assertion: those who receive messages and are influenced by them are the audience, and this is so because the audience is the one or many who listen, watch or read messages.

The assertion in statement 1 identifies the audience by the act of receiving and being affected by messages.

The reason in statement 2 defines the audience by the acts of listening, watching or reading, which are exactly the ways messages are received.

Since receiving and being influenced happen precisely through listening, watching and reading, statement 2 supplies the ground for statement 1.

The two therefore stand in a genuine cause and definition relation, not a mere coincidence of true remarks.

Audience study distinguishes such receivers as active interpreters, not passive absorbers of content.