首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Good news is bad news and bad news is good news, newsmen often say to one another. And when you look at the media it’s only too
Good news is bad news and bad news is good news, newsmen often say to one another. And when you look at the media it’s only too
admin
2010-07-06
75
问题
Good news is bad news and bad news is good news, newsmen often say to one another. And when you look at the media it’s only too easy to see what they mean. A dictionary definition of the media is mass communication, e.g. the press, television, radio. The media sees its main purpose as giving the public news. Naturally to provide the public with news, the media has first to gather it. The whole function and purpose of the media, then, seems to depend on the word "news", but more important, on how the word is interpreted.
The media like any big business venture today is an extremely competitive world of its own. In providing material for its public it has constantly to make sure it serves the right diet. No public will waste time on your paper or your TV channel otherwise. The sad truth is that there seems only one way to catch an audience—hit them right between the eyes. What started as a mild tap has now become a sledgehammer blow that goes by the name of sensationalism.
A reporter chooses—has to choose—a news story because of its sensation value. The young inexperienced cub reporter rings his editor about a car crash. He starts to explain the details to him but the experienced editor asks the cub one question: "Anyone killed?" and to himself he thinks, why do we offer jobs to children?
One may accuse newsman of cynicism but they will quickly remind you of the hard facts of survival in the world of the media. The favorite words the newspaper placards in the streets bombard the public with are, "Surprise, Sensation, Drama, Shock". You wonder, when the papers batter the public with dramas and sensations day after day, that they haven’t put an end to sensation long ago. As a regular newspaper reader you also thank Heavens for the light relief of the strips. Turn finally from them to what is referred to laughingly as "steam radio", in order to show its relative antiquity. This for many millions of people is the only live contact they have with the outside world that tightly or wrongly they have been led to believe they should have contact with. It’s extremely hard of course to see why, when for the most part its news services bring them tragedy, disaster, heartbreak, other people’s misfortunes—in a word, trouble. What again becomes quickly apparent is that a man’s job depends on sensationalism, and we are asked to excuse him for this.
Perhaps the media hasn’t quite grown up and we should congratulate it on getting this far. The year 2000 may see great changes in the way news is presented to us. Again, who knows, it might even get worse—if such a thing is possible. Perish the thought!
According to the passage which is most important?
选项
A、The media’s purpose.
B、The news itself.
C、What is thought of as news.
D、The gathering of news.
答案
C
解析
本题考查细节辨析。根据第一段的最后一句“新闻媒体的整个功能和目的似乎取决于‘新闻’这个词,而更重要的是,取决于这个词如何被释义”可以判断,最重要的是“新闻到底被认为是什么”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/1PDd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Waterisakindofchemicalsubstance.
Waterisakindofchemicalsubstance.
AccordingtotheAmericanAcademyofDermatology,anestimated10to50millionpeopleinthiscountryhaveanallergicreaction
"Down-to-earth"meanssomeoneorsomethingthatishonest,realisticandeasytodealwith.Itisapleasuretofind【C1】______wh
Amongtheraftofbooks,articles,jokes,romanticcomedies,self-helpguidesandotherwritingsdiscussingmarriage,somefamil
Agingbabyboomersaredeterminedtofighttheagingprocess.Theyspendmillionsofdollarsayearon【C1】________theyperceive
Agingbabyboomersaredeterminedtofighttheagingprocess.Theyspendmillionsofdollarsayearon【C1】________theyperceive
Withanagingpopulationgrowingrapidly,Chinaisfacedwithaprospectoflabourshortage.Somepeoplesuggestthatthegovern
Whatisthefirstjobthemanappliedforrightafterhisuniversitygraduation?Howdidthemanfeelabouttakingaregularjo
AmericanIndiansplayedacentralroleinthewarknownastheAmericanRevolution.Tothem,however,thedisputebetweentheco
随机试题
女性,56岁,上腹不适,嗳气1个月,进食如常,胃镜示:胃角小弯侧1cm×0.6cm局限性黏膜粗糙、糜烂,亚甲蓝喷洒后着色明显下列哪种疾病的可能性大
2岁男孩,未接种麻疹疫苗,在托儿所中接触过麻疹患儿,立即给予丙种球蛋白注射,对该小儿应检疫观察()
卫生法中的法律责任,分别是
A.直接凝集B.单向琼脂扩散C.对流免疫电泳D.ELISAE.荧光标记检查血清中抗核抗体的方法
关于隔(截)水帷幕与降水井布置的说法,正确的有()。
进口口岸()唛头()
赵某将房屋出租给高某,在租赁期间,高某没有经过赵某同意将房屋进行简单的装修,并且转租给了郭某,则以下处理中,符合法律规定的有()。
根据所给资料,回答下列小题。2012年A省邮政电信业务总量1812.4亿元,比上年增长14。其中邮政业务总量153.6亿元,电信业务总量1658.8亿元,分别增长20.0%和13.4%。邮政电信业务收入737.2亿元,比上年增长7.4%。其中邮政业务收入
数据库是长期存储在计算机内、有组织的、可【】的数据集合。
Thepassagemainlydealswiththenegativeconsequencesofbreak-uponindividuals.Everyonecanfindaperfectpersononcein
最新回复
(
0
)