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Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee houses in the form of pa
Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee houses in the form of pa
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2018-03-27
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Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns and coffee houses in the form of pamphlets and newsletters. Everything changed in 1833 when the first mass-audience newspaper, The New York Sun, pioneered the use of advertising to reduce the cost of news, thus giving advertisers access to a wider audience. The penny press, followed by radio and television, turned news from a two-way conversation into a one-way broadcast, with a relatively small number of firms controlling the media.
Now, the news industry is returning to something closer to the coffee house. The Internet is making news more participatory, social and diverse, reviving the
discursive
characteristics of the era before the mass media. Newspaper circulation rose globally by 6% between 2005 and 2009. But those global figures mask a sharp decline in readership in rich countries. Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapers and TV news and keeping up with events in profoundly different ways. Most strikingly, ordinary people are increasingly involved in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news. Twitter lets people anywhere report what they are seeing. Classified documents are published in their thousands online.
Mobile-phone footage of Arab uprisings and American tornadoes is posted on social-networking sites and shown on television newscasts. Social-networking sites help people find, discuss and share news with their friends. And technology firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter have become important conduits of news. The Internet lets people read newspapers or watch television channels from around the world. The web has allowed new providers of news to rise to prominence in a very short space of time. And it has made possible entirely new approaches to journalism, such as that practiced by WikiLeaks, which provides an anonymous way for whistleblowers to publish documents.
The news agenda is no longer controlled by a few press barons and state outlets.
In principles, every liberal should celebrate this. A more participatory and social news environment, with a remarkable diversity and range of news sources, is a good thing. The transformation of the news business is unstoppable. Although this transformation does raise concerns, there is much to celebrate in the noisy, diverse, vociferous, argumentative and stridently alive environment of the news business in the ages of the Internet. The coffee house is back. Enjoy it.
The author’ s attitude towards new mass media is_____.
选项
A、positive and cautious
B、detest and skeptical
C、skeptical and reserved
D、ambiguous and negative
答案
A
解析
纵观全文可知,作者大多数的阐述都是非常正面的,例如最后一段首句In principle,every liberal should celebrate this.(原则上,每个自由主义者都应该为此庆祝。)等。B项“厌恶和怀疑”,C项“怀疑和保留”和D项“模糊和消极”,均不符合题意。通过最后一段倒数第三句And although this transformation does raise concerns…可知,A项中的cautious (严谨的)符合题意。故选A。
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