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"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers," Mahatma Gandhi once said. Journalist-haters like him m
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers," Mahatma Gandhi once said. Journalist-haters like him m
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2022-10-05
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"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers," Mahatma Gandhi once said. Journalist-haters like him might not care about the agony of America’s news firms, but many Americans do. Nearly a third of them say they have abandoned a news source because they thought the quality of its information was declining.
According to "The State of the News Media 2013", a report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research Centre, the deteriorating financial state of news organizations has hurt their output. Newspaper staffs have shrunk by around 30% since their peak in 1989, and newspapers collectively now employ fewer than 40,000 full-time professionals, the lowest number since the mid-1970s.
Americans who think media firms are putting out fewer original, thoughtful stories are probably right. Weather, traffic and sport now account for around 40% of local television newscasts. The average length of a story keeps falling. Only 20% of local TV stories exceed a minute, and half take less than 30 seconds.
On cable-news channels, live reports, which require camera crews and journalists actually to show up somewhere, have fallen by a third in daytime programs in the past five years. Interview segments, which are cheap, have risen. Americans may also prefer talking heads because they increasingly prefer to hear opinion rather than fact. This trend is highlighted by the popularity of Fox, a conservative news network, and of MSNBC, its left-leaning counterpart. CNN, which tends to toe the middle line, continues to struggle with its ratings unless there is a big news event.
Where is the good news? Last year local TV stations, especially those in swing states like Florida and Ohio, got a welcome boost from the $3 billion spent on TV advertising during the election. And newspapers are now starting in large numbers to demand payment for their digital content. Pew reckons that around a third of America’s 1,380 dailies have started (or will soon launch) paywalls, inspired by the success of the New York Times, where 640,000 subscribers get the digital edition and circulation now accounts for a larger portion of revenues than advertising.
Boosting circulation revenue will help stem losses from print advertising, since it has become clear that digital advertising will not be enough. For every $16 lost in print advertising last year, newspapers made only around $1 from digital ads. The bulk of the $37.3 billion spent on digital advertising in 2012 went to five firms: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and AOL.
Not much Gandhian equality there
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It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that in the future ________.
选项
A、more dailies will charge for the digital news
B、swing states will enjoy higher advertising profits
C、the New York Times will win the most subscribers
D、circulation will account for the largest portion of revenue
答案
A
解析
根据题干可直接定位到第五段。该段最后一句提到,根据预测,美国1380份日报中大约有三分之一将对其电子新闻收费(will soon launch paywalls),所以A项正确。第五段开头讲到摇摆州区的广告量有大幅提升,但该句用的是过去时(got),讲述过去选举期间(during the election)的情况,并非题干问的in the future,故B项错误。第五段最后一句提到《纽约时报》取得成功,拥有640,000 subscribers,但订阅的是digital edition,因而并不能说明《纽约时报》拥有最多的订阅者,只能说明其电子版的成功,C项以偏概全,故错误。D项主语不明确,该段最后一句讲到报纸发行收入超过广告收入,但对象指的是《纽约时报》,而并非整个行业的情况,故D项错误。
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