首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself," mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington
"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself," mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington
admin
2013-01-10
24
问题
"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself," mused Arthur Miller in 1961. A decade later, two reporters from the Washington Post wrote a series of articles that brought down President Nixon and the status of print journalism soared. At their best, newspapers hold governments and companies to account. They usually set the news agenda for the rest of the media. But in the rich world newspapers are now an endangered species.
Of all the old media, newspapers have the most to lose from the Internet. Circulation has been falling in the U. S. , Western Europe and Latin America for decades. But in the past few years the web has hastened the decline. In his book The Vanishing Newspaper, Philip Meyer calculates that the first quarter of 2043 will be the moment when newsprint dies in the U. S. as the last exhausted reader tosses aside the last crumpled edition.
Newspapers have not yet started to shut down in large numbers, but it is only a matter of time. Over the next few decades half the rich world’s general papers may fold. Jobs are already disappearing. According to the Newspaper Association of America, the number of people employed in the industry fell by 18% between 1990 and 2004.
Having ignored reality for years, newspapers are at last doing something. In order to cut costs, they are already spending less on journalism. Many are also trying to attract younger readers by shifting the mix of their stories towards entertainment, lifestyle and subjects that may seem more relevant to people’s daily lives than international affairs and politics are. They are trying to create new businesses on-and offline. And they are investing in free daily papers. So far, this fit of activity looks unlikely to save many of them. Even if it does, it bodes ill for the public role of the Fourth Estate.
Nobody should relish the demise of once-great titles. But the decline of newspapers will not be as harmful to society as some fear. Democracy, remember, has already survived the huge television-led decline in circulation since the 1950s. It has survived as readers have shunned papers and papers have shunned what was in stuffier times thought of as serious news. And it will surely survive the decline to come.
The usefulness of the press goes much wider than investigating abuses or even spreading general news; it lies in holding governments to account — trying them in the court of public opinion. The Internet has expanded this court. Anyone looking for information has never been better equipped. People no longer have to trust a handful of national papers or, worse, their local city paper.
In future, some high-quality journalism will be backed by non-profit organizations. Already, a few respected news organizations sustain themselves that way. An elite group of serious newspapers available everywhere online, independent journalism backed by charities, thousands of fired-up bloggers and well-informed citizen journalists: there is every sign that Arthur Miller’s national conversation will be louder than ever.
The author cites all the following except that______to show that newspapers are not killed.
选项
A、newspapers have the most to lose from the Internet
B、the web has hastened the decline of the circulation
C、newspapers won’t die out in the U. S. until 2043
D、ever more young people are getting their news online
答案
D
解析
是非题型A的内容在第二段的第一句中有提及;B的内容在第二段第二、三句中有提及;C的内容在第二段最后一句中有提及;只有D的内容没有提及,因此D为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/cEwO777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI三级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI三级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
WhatnaturalfeaturesofManitoba-doestheprofessordiscuss?Clickontwoanswers.
THEFIVE—SEVENSHIFT1Allmajortheoriesofchildpsychologystatethatchildrenundergoamajorchangebetweentheagesoff
[Topic]Ithinkthebestwaytolearnisthroughadvicefromfamily,friends,andmentors,notpersonalexperience.Reason1]
GlobalDevelopmentsSociologiststellusthereisalinkbetweenprivatelivesandsocialforces.Anoutstandingexampleof
IseachofthesetrueaboutRomanroads?Foreachstatement,clickintheYESorNOcolumn.
Inmyopinion,campusmarriageisapersonalissue,whetherpeoplemarryornotduringtheirstudiesdependsontheirownsituat
A、Givehertickettotheman.B、Borrowsomejazzmusicfromsomeoneelse.C、Gototheconcertwithouttheman.D、Helpthemanto
A、She’llgivethemanthenewspaperafterclass.B、Shedoesn’treadthenewspaperforherclass.C、Shedoesn’thaveanewspaper
LeaderslikeJohnF.KennedyandMartinLutherKinghavemadeimportantcontributionstothepeopleoftheUnitedStates.Namea
HOWSOILISFORMED(1)Soilformationisadynamicprocessthattakesplaceindifferentenvironments.Itisstronglyinflue
随机试题
用药安全性的确切含义是
不属于阴虚火旺型盗汗证候特点的是
下列药物入汤剂要求后下的药物是
结核分枝杆菌形态学诊断最常用的染色方法是
对不使用政府资金的企业投资建设的项目,政府主要从()等方面进行核准。
控制性详细规划的控制体系指标包括()。
在室内排水系统的排出管施工中,隐蔽前必须做()。
某项目的净现金流量如下表(单位为万元)。贴现率为15%,则其财务净现值是()万元(精确到个位)。已知折现率为15%的第一至第三年的折现系数分别为0.87,0.756,0.658。[2014年6月真题]
有7名运动员参加男子5000米的决赛,他们是:S,T,U,W,X,Y和Z。运动员穿的服装不是红色,就是绿色,没有运动员同时到达终点。已知的信息如下:相继到达终点的运动员,他们的服装不全是红色的。Y在T和W之前的某一时刻到达终点。在Y之前到达终点的运
某字段中已经有数据,现要改变该字段的大小属性,将该字段大小重新设置为整数型,则以下所存数据会发生变化的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)