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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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2014-09-27
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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?" an American senator asked Time Warner executives recently. "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 from the late Steve Ross in the early 1990s. 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 a 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."
An American senator criticized Time Warner for______.
选项
A、its raising of the corporate stock price
B、its self-examination of the soul
C、its neglect of social responsibility
D、its emphasis on creative freedom
答案
D
解析
细节题。它对社会职责的忽略。参阅文章开头一段内容:没有哪个公司愿意说它导致了国家的道德败坏。议员上周试问时代.华纳公司道:这就是你们想要经营的目标吗?你们已经出卖了自己的灵魂,难道还想毁了国家和危及孩子吗?由此分析,时代一华纳公司是忽视了自己的社会责任。选项[A]意为:它提高公司股份;选项[B]意为:它检查自己的灵魂;选项[D]意为:它强调创造性的自由。很显然,从第一段内容看,这三个选项都不是议员抨击时代-华纳公司的内容。
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