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Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee houses in the form of pa
Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee houses in the form of pa
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2017-11-20
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Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee houses in the form of pamphlets and newsletters. Everything changed in 1833 when the first mass-audience newspaper, The New York Sun, pioneered the use of advertising to reduce the cost of news, thus giving advertisers access to a wider audience. The penny press, followed by radio and television, turned news from a two-way conversation into a one-way broadcast, with a relatively small number of firms controlling the media.
Now, the news industry is returning to something closer to the coffee house. The Internet is making news more participatory, social and diverse, reviving the
discursive
characteristics of the era before the mass media. Newspaper circulation rose globally by 6% between 2005 and 2009. But those global figures mask a sharp decline in readership in rich countries. Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapers and TV news and keeping up with events in profoundly different ways. Most strikingly, ordinary people are increasingly involved in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news. Twitter lets people anywhere report what they are seeing. Classified documents are published in their thousands online.
Mobile-phone footage of Arab uprisings and American tornadoes is posted on social-networking sites and shown on television newscasts. Social-networking sites help people find, discuss and share news with their friends. And technology firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter have become important conduits of news. The Internet lets people read newspapers or watch television channels from around the world. The web has allowed new providers of news to rise to prominence in a very short space of time. And it has made possible entirely new approaches to journalism, such as that practiced by WikiLeaks, which provides an anonymous way for whistleblowers to publish documents.
The news agenda is no longer controlled by a few press barons and state outlets.
In principles, every liberal should celebrate this. A more participatory and social news environment, with a remarkable diversity and range of news sources, is a good thing. The transformation of the news business is unstoppable. Although this transformation does raise concerns, there is much to celebrate in the noisy, diverse, vociferous, argumentative and stridently alive environment of the news business in the ages of the Internet. The coffee house is back. Enjoy it.
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a role played by Internet?
选项
A、Challenging the conventional media.
B、Planning the return to coffee-house news.
C、Offering people the access to classified documents.
D、Giving ordinary people the opportunity to distribute news.
答案
B
解析
根据题文同序原则,可定位在第二段及之后的位置。第二段指出了互联网使传 统报纸销量下降,即对传统媒体造成了冲击,与A项“挑战传统媒体”表述一致。第三段、第 四段都指出了普通人既可以传播新闻,也可以获得更多机密文件,与C项“给人们提供访 问机密文件的机会”和D项“给普通人一个传播新闻的机会”表述一致。只有B项“计划回 归咖啡屋新闻”并未在原文中提及。故选B。
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