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  3. The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related

The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related

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问题     The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related to the People’s Park that were occurring on campus. Some of these events were given national media coverage in the press and on TV. I found it interesting to compare my impressions of what was going on with perceptions obtained from the news media. I could begin to see events of that time feed on news cover-age. This also provided me with some healthy insights into the distinctions between these realities.
    Electronic media are having a greater impact on the people’s lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your consciousness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on "live action" such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities.
    In 1992, many people watched in horror as riots broke out on a sad Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, seemingly fed by video coverage from helicopters. This event was triggered by the verdict(裁定)in the Rodney King beating. We are now in an age where the public can have access to information that enables it to make its own judgments, and most people, who had seen the video of this beating, could not understand how the jury(陪审团)was able to acquit(宣布无罪)the policemen involved. Media coverage of events as they occur also provides powerful feedback that influences events. This can have harmful results, as it seemed on that Wednesday night in Los Angeles. By Friday night the public got to see Rodney King on television pleading, "Can we all get along?" By Saturday, television seemed to provide positive feedback as the Los Angeles riot turned out into a rally for peace. The television showed thousands of people marching with banners and cleaning tools. Because of that, many more people turned out to join the peaceful event they saw unfolding(展开)on television. The real healing, of course, will take much longer, but electronic media will continue to be a part of that process.
The 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out because______.
选项 A、the jury acquitted the policemen who had beaten Rodney King
B、people can make their own judgments
C、video coverage from helicopters had made people angry
D、video coverage had provided powerful feedback
答案A
解析 文章第三段讲到，1992年，大多数看过法官对罗德尼·金殴打案事件不公平裁决引起骚乱事件的录像。人们不明白陪审团为什么会宣判涉嫌的警察无罪。可见， 1992年发生在洛杉矶的骚乱是由于陪审团的裁决引发的。A项与文章的意思相符。通过文章的描述可知，人们有获取信息的权利，对事件作出自己的判断并不是骚乱的原因。所以B项不对。文中讲到的人们以一种惊恐的态度观看了从直升机上拍摄的发生在洛杉矶骚乱的录像，但没说人们愤怒了。所以C项不对。D项也不是导致骚乱的原因。所以本题的正确答案应为A。
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