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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 y
No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation. "Is this what you intended to accomplish with y
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2018-03-01
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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 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."
What does the author intend to imply by mentioning the two questions asked by Senator Robert Dole?
选项
A、The corporation is making self-reflection to be responsible and creative.
B、The questions are the corporate bottom lines.
C、The company is responsible for moral decline of the nation.
D、The company threatened our children.
答案
A
解析
这个题目问Senator Robert Dole问的两个问题暗示了什么,在两个问题紧跟着的后一句,也就是第一段的第四句中提到:such questions are simply the latest manifestation of,即这样的问题最近表明了……,也就是说,往后的信息即为题目的答案。到第一段的最后一句,清楚地说到它是一种自我反省,反省的内容有责任、创造性的自由等等,因此选项A是正确的。选项B错误的原因是根据第一段最后一句可知bottom line是公司自省的其中一个内容,而不是说这些问题就是公司的底线。选项C对应文章第一段第一句,是对题目和文意的曲解,并且没有回答题目的问题。选项D对应的是第一段的第三句,是问题本身而不是问题暗示的内容,因而错误。
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