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"What a difference a word makes." The issue of semantics has been an ongoing complaint against the media, which has been charact

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问题     "What a difference a word makes." The issue of semantics has been an ongoing complaint against the media, which has been characterized by an increasing level of sensationalism and irresponsible reporting over the years, fostered by increasingly fierce competition and struggle for wider distributions and readerships.
    A focal point for the criticism is the coverage of high-profile criminal cases. With such headlines as "Mr. X Arrested for First-Degree Murder" prominently displayed across the front page, it has been argued that such provocative language influences public opinion, causing premature assumptions of guilt before the matter can be properly and legally decided in a court of law. The power of the media to influence public opinion and, by extension, legal and political perceptions, has long been established and recognized, spurring outcries when inaccurate or overly embellished stories result in unwarranted destruction of public image or intrusions into privacy of unwilling individuals.
    Reporters and editors take the utmost care in their choice of words for use in their articles, but with constant pressure to create provocative headlines in order to sell their papers, the distinction between respectable periodicals and trashy tabloids is becoming thinner every day. The predicament is exacerbated by the public’s seeming short attention span, putting the papers under pressure to make their stories as attention-grabbing as they are accurate. Further obfuscating the situation is the fact that the same phrase can be interpreted in a myriad of different ways depending on who reads it, making it hard for one to judge whether a line is excessive or not.
    Whatever the causes and effects, however, the freedom of press laws in the United States means that any change to the style employed by the media must be self-imposed. In that respect, it appears that nothing will be changing in the near future, since the public’s insatiable hunger for controversy and scandal continues to dominate and set the pace for marketable reporting. As the sensationalism and its related effects continue into the longer term, however, there will no doubt be more outcry as the trend continues. This will possibly result in an upheaval of the system, favoring more accurate, unembellished reporting, consisting of hard facts with a minimum of supposition or commentary and devoid of rumrs and other questionable sources of information. If and when that occurs, we can truly state with pride that our media industry is not only a free one, but a responsible and reliable one.
The opinion of the author on media reporting is that______.
选项 A、reporting, as it is conducted today, is of little value due to its sensationalist nature
B、the media is primarily interested in boosting sales and only marginally interested in the accuracy of it’s articles
C、the media is on a downward spiral toward further inaccuracies, but there is hope for the future
D、the inaccurate nature of the media is mainly because of public demand for that type of journalism
答案C
解析 属态度推断题。文章第一段最后一句指出：目前媒体的一大特点就是追求轰动效应的内容和不负责任的报道越来越多。接着第二、三段以例证说明这种现象的形成原因及影响。最后一段总结上文，指出希望：将来会有这么一天，我们能真正骄傲地宣布，我们的媒体产业不仅是自由的，也是负责的和值得信赖的。由此可见，选项C正确。选项A在文中没有推理依据；选项B与第三段第一句意思不符，文中说记者和编辑在文章的措辞上极其小心；选项D表述不准确，媒体报道失实主要还是由于竞争日益激烈，而不是人们对虚假报道的需求。
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