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Where Is the News Leading Us? Not long ago I was asked to join in a public symposium on the vole of the American press. Two
Where Is the News Leading Us? Not long ago I was asked to join in a public symposium on the vole of the American press. Two
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2014-02-22
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Where Is the News Leading Us?
Not long ago I was asked to join in a public symposium on the vole of the American press. Two other speakers were included on the program. The first was a distinguished TV anchorman. The other was the editor of one of the nation’s leading papers, a newsman to the core-tough, aggressive, and savvy in the ways and means of solid reporting.
The purpose of the symposium, as I understood it, was to scrutinize the obligations of the media and to suggest the best ways to meet those obligations.
【R1】______Why, he asked, are the newspapers and television news programs so disaster-prone?
Why are newsmen and women so attracted to tragedy, violence, failure?
The anchorman and editor reacted as though they had been blamed for the existence of bad news. Newsmen and newswomen, they said, are only responsible for reporting the news, not for creating it or modifying it.
【R2】______The gentleman who had asked it was not blaming them for the distortions in the world. He was just wondering why distortions are most reported. The news media seem to operate on the philosophy that all news is bad news. Why? Could it be that the emphasis on downside news is largely the result of tradition — the way newsmen and newswomen are accustomed to respond to daily events?
【R3】______News is supposed to deal with happenings of the past 12 hours-24 hours at most. Anything that happens so suddenly, however, is apt to be eruptive. A sniper kills some pedestrians; a terrorist holds 250 people hostage in a plane; OPEC announces a 25 percent increase in petroleum prices; Great Britain devalues by another 10 percent; a truck conveying radioactive wastes collides with a mobile cement mixer.
【R4】______Civilization is a lot more than the sum total of its catastrophes. The most important ingredient in any civilization is progress. But progress doesn’t happen all at once. It is not eruptive. Generally, it comes in bits and pieces, very little of it clearly visible at any given moment, but all of it involved in the making of historical change for the better.
It is this aspect of living history that most news reporting reflects inadequately. The result is that we are underinformed about positive developments and oveninformed about disasters. This, in turn, leads to a public mood of defeatism and despair, which in themselves tend to be inhibitors of progress. An unrelieved diet of eruptive news depletes the essential human energies a free society needs. 【R5】______
I am not suggesting that "positive" news he contrived as an antidote to the disasters on page one. Nor do I define positive news as in-depth reportage of functions of the local YMCA. What I am trying to get across is the notion that the responsibility of the news media is to search out and report on important events-whether or not they come under the heading of conflict, confrontation, or catastrophe. The world is a splendid combination of heaven and hell, and both sectors call for attention and scrutiny.
A. Focusing solely on these details, however, produces a misshapen picture.
B. Perhaps it would be useful here to examine the way we define the word news, for this is where the problem begins
C. A mood of hopelessness and cynicism is hardly likely to furnish the energy needed to meet serious challenges.
D. During the open-discussion period, a gentleman in the audience addressed a question to my two colleagues.
E. It didn’t seem to me that the newsmen had answered the question.
【R4】
选项
答案
A
解析
在最后剩下的两个选项中进行选择。A选项说“然而,单单只关注于这些细节会形成一幅残缺的画面。”C选项说“无助和愤世嫉俗的情绪几乎不可能提供迎接重大挑战所需的能量。”根据上下文可知,这里在讲述新闻报道多报道负面新闻的原因,并没有讲述情绪相关的内容。A选项能符合空格处所需内容。所以正确答案:是A选项。
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