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Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, fee
Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, fee
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2013-06-02
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Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, feel and understand about the world has been processed for us." When we "cannot distinguish with certainty the natural from the interpreted, or the artificial from the organic, all theories of the ideal organization of life become equal."
In other words, TV teaches that all lifestyles and values are equal, and that there is no clearly defined right and wrong. In Amusing Ourselves to Death, one of the best recent books on the tyranny of television, Nell Postman wonders why nobody has pointed out that television possibly oversteps the instructions in the Bible.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many of the traditional standards and mores of society came under heavy assault. Indeed, they were blown apart, largely with the help of one’s own. There was an air of unreality about many details of daily life. Even important moral questions suffered distortion when they were reduced to TV images. During the Vietnam conflict, there was much graphic violence—soldiers and civilians actually dying—on screen. One scene that shocked the nation was an execution in which the victim was shot in the head with a pistol on prime-time TV. People "tuned in" to the war every night, and controversial issues about the causes, conduct, and resolution of the conflict could be summed up in these superficial broadcasts.
The same phenomenon was seen again in the Gulf War. With stirring background music and sophisticated computer graphics, each network’s banner script read across the screen, "War in the Gulf," as if it were just another TV program. War isn’t a program—it is a dirty, bloody mess. People are killed daily. Yet, television all but teaches that this carnage merely is another diversion, a form of blockbuster entertainment—the big show with all the international stars present.
In the last years of his life, Malcolm Muggeridge, a pragmatic and print journalist, warned: "From the first moment I was in the studio, I felt that it was far from being a good thing. I felt that television would ultimately be inimical to what I most appreciate, which is the expression of truth, expressing your reactions to life in words." He concluded: "I don’t think people are going to be preoccupied with ideas. I think they are going to live in a fantasy world where you don’t need any ideas. The one thing that television can’t do is expressing ideas. There is a danger in translating life into an image, and that is what television is doing. It is thus falsifying life. Recorder of what is going on, it is the exact opposite. It cannot convey reality nor does it even want to."
How is television said to distort life in reporting warfare and conflicts?
选项
A、TV teaches that all lifestyles and values are equal.
B、People are preoccupied with fantastic ideas about wars.
C、On the television screen, people see a dirty, bloody mess.
D、Television presents images of human carnage in a form of entertainment program.
答案
D
解析
细节题。由文章第四段最后一句可知,电视以娱乐节目的形式报道战争,扭曲生活,所以D正确。
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