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No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation."Is this what you intended to accomplish with yo
No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation."Is this what you intended to accomplish with yo
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2015-05-29
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No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation."Is this what you intended to accomplish with your careers?" Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week."You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?" At Time Warner, however, such questions are simply the latest manifestation of the soul searching that has involved the company ever since the company was born in 1990.It’s a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line.
At the core of this debate is chairman Gerald Levin, 56, who took over for the late Steve Ross in 1992.On the financial front, Levin is under pressure to raise the stock price and reduce the company’s mountainous debt, which will increase to 17.3 billion after two new cable deals close.He has promised to sell off some of the property and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently.
The flap over rap is not making life any easier for him.Levin has consistently defended the company’s rap music on the grounds of expression.In 1992, when Time Warner was under fire for releasing Ice T’s violent rap song Cop Killer, Levin described rap as a lawful expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet."The test of any democratic society," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be.We won’t retreat in the face of any threats."
Levin would not comment on the debate last week, but there were signs that the chairman was backing off his hard line stand, at least to some extent.During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month’s stockholders’ meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society’s ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.But he talked as well about the "balanced struggle" between creative freedom and social responsibility, and he announced that the company would launch a drive to develop standards for distribution and labeling of potentially objectionable music.
The 15 member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy.But insiders say several of them have shown their concerns in this matter."Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited," says Luce."I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have only recently come to realize this."
The best title for this passage could be______.
选项
A、A Company under Fire
B、A Debate on Moral Decline
C、A Lawful Outlet of Street Culture
D、A Form of Creative Freedom
答案
A
解析
本题中,B项不能表达文章的中心意思,文中并没有辩论过道德败坏问题;C项以及D项只是文章第3段中Levin为公司的新音乐辩护和为《华尔街日报》的专栏写文章时所持的观点,也不能表达文章的中心意思。本文第1段提到了时代华纳公司因为发行新音乐专辑而被谴责缺乏社会责任这一问题,随后几段具体说明了该公司对此所作的反应。据此可知,本文主要讲的是时代华纳公司受到的谴责和他们对谴责做出的反应。A项与文章的意思相符,因此A项为正确答案。
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