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How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, i
How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, i
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2017-04-13
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How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, instead of a brain, a plate of lemon jelly? Last week the debate was raging once again about the controversial and important point as to whether the newsreaders write their own copy, read someone else’s or simply make it up as they go along. Angela Rippon reckoned that she had never heard of a newsreader writing stuff, but her modern counterpart, the beautiful Sophie Raworth, claims that they do the writing and adds that she has a postgraduate degree in journalism.
This is the core of the issue: what on earth is there to learn about journalism at postgraduate level? The point and purpose of our lowly, occasionally useful, trade could be scribbled on the back of a postage stamp and would easily be comprehended by a 14-year-old boy with ADHD(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Who has decided that it must be dignified with a doctoral thesis?
Nor is reading the news even what one might call "journalism". It is an even simpler business called "reading". All that the BBC demands of its female newsreaders is an ability to read in an impartial way words like "Israel has murdered more Lebanese children again today" from the teleprompter without belching or lisping. It helps if they have the eminently presentable manner of a girl guide leader from Esher. They are forbidden to express an opinion. They are not required to go undercover, analyze the news or add witty asides. They are required to be that which they are known as in the trade—
"a gob on a stick"
. A penetrating intelligence is not merely unnecessary, it is counterproductive.
Newsreaders who are too intelligent soon stop being newsreaders, much as John Humphrys did, stifled by the commonplace of their duties. Or they give the game away by doing what that German newsreader did and end the programme, shaking their heads sadly, muttering, "it’s all lies, all lies".
Which is not to say BBC newsreaders are bad at their jobs: quite the reverse. But we should not confuse competence with intelligence. Newsreaders believe that because they are reading out serious stuff and everybody is listening to them, they must therefore be creatures possessed of a high IQ. They are confusing the message with the medium.
The author cites the example of BBC in Paragraph 3 to show that
选项
A、it is concerned about international affairs and widely reports them.
B、reading the news mainly involves required reading capability.
C、it has laid down a lot of dos and don’ts for its newsreaders.
D、reading the news is an easy job that most people are qualified for.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。例证法中,例子是论据,是为了证明论点的。此处以BBC对其女播音员的要求为例,证明前面所说的“播音只是一种朗读的技能”这个论点,故B项正确。
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考研英语一
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