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
According to the interview, what does yellow journalism mean?
According to the interview, what does yellow journalism mean?
admin
2014-08-13
27
问题
According to the interview, what does yellow journalism mean?
W: Now that the 20th century has slipped into history, we take this opportunity to look back at 100 years of journalism. Joining us now Clarence Page, columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Welcome.
M: Thank you.
W: You know, in the early 1900s, the Citizen Kane area, you had a lot of papers—The World, Sun, Herald Tribune, Telegram, Mirror, News, Times, Post, and so on. But many of these were openly partisan papers swinging away on behalf of Democrats or Republicans. Today’s newspapers are big, supposedly objective, but more homogenous and some would say boring. Have we lost something?
M: Oh, I don’t think they’re boring. I think that today’s newspapers are infinitely better than any one of those newspapers that you mentioned there. You go back and look at those things, I mean the word yellow journalism, although it came out of a comic strip, came to speak about a whole generation of papers that were untrustworthy, in which you couldn’t tell the difference between an advertisement and news and a good part of the news was made up or created to serve the interests of the publisher.
W: But aren’t newspapers today a little more cautious, Clarence?
M: Well, that’s always the question. The worst thing we can do is to be boring. We also don’t want to be offensive. At the beginning of the century we were an immigration country, mostly immigrants coming from Europe. We are once again an immigration country but they’re coming from all over the world. We’re also a country that recognizes diversity in different kinds of ways. When I came to Chicago, we had four daily newspapers and that was fun to be a reporter. We’ve got two dailies in town and the real competition is not between the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times but between us and the suburban papers.
W: Exactly.
M: And that’s true all over the country. Now the suburban papers are competing with the old urban papers because America is changing once again. Now we’re a more suburban country.
W: I would hate to return to the days of partisan papers or the days when the staffs were all white, mostly male, a far cry from today. But I do think that newspapers have gotten very cautious in their new monopoly status in most cities. Let’s flash forward now to World War II and the coverage there. It was an era of great story-tellers. But it was also a very patriotic kind of coverage.
M: Well, look back home, a classic story of how American journalists and photographers didn’t put pictures of Roosevelt in his wheelchair, of how the one young photographer started to take a picture and the older one knocked the camera out of his hands.
W: Inconceivable today.
M: Exactly, and the whole culture has changed and our role now is more adversarial and the public expects us to be so.
W: I have a question for you because in the same decade of the 1960s that we had the civil rights upheaval we also had Vietnam War and because of the focus of the press on how badly the war was going, I’m wondering if some might say that that, too, was advocacy journalism that helped turn the country against the Vietnam War.
M: I don’t think it was advocacy because that suggests a predetermined point of view. I think in the case of Vietnam the reporters were reporting the facts and the facts were stacked against the reality that was being presented by the Pentagon. Advocacy presupposes that you go to the typewriter or the computer with a fixed point of view. That was not the case in Vietnam. I remind you that in the early years of the war in Vietnam, the resounding message in the press corps was pro-war, that is to say pro the U.S. position in the war.
W: Certainly. Right.
M: And, in fact, it’s interesting, our evening news was only 15 minutes long. But it was 15 minutes long until the fall of 1963 when Huntley Brinkley and the others went to a half hour just in time for JFK to be assassinated and become the first 24-hour TV news story. And then the Vietnam War heated up after that, along with civil rights, etc., and TV became the real conveyor of the narrative here.
W: OK, we’ll talk about where the media are heading in the 21st century. Television clearly changed the world but the Internet seems to be remaking it once again and even more significant. Is that a good thing?
M: It’s good and it’s bad. I mean there is now much more competition. On the other hand, of course, you get very, very bad and dangerous web sites. It’ll need to be policed.
W: Clarence Page, thanks very much for helping us cover the last hundred years.
M: Likewise. Thank you.
选项
A、Trustworthy coverage in newspaper or magazine.
B、Advertisements that come out of a comic strip.
C、Sensational and exaggerated journalistic reports.
D、Newspapers and magazines serving public interests.
答案
C
解析
访谈中男士认为当今的报纸并不枯燥,远胜于以前的报纸。他以yellow journalism(黄色新闻)为反面例子,认为这种哗众取宠的新闻作风代表了整整一代不可靠、模糊广告和新闻界限、为出版商私利而不惜杜撰的新闻风格。因此C为正确答案。注意untrustworthy和made up贬义词表明说话人对yellow journalism的反感。注:yellow journalism是指19世纪中期兴起的以极度夸张及捏造情节的手法来渲染新闻事件,尤其是指关于色情、暴力、犯罪方面的事件,达到耸人听闻、进而提高发行量的新闻报道。起源于美国著名报刊人普利策和赫斯特的竞争。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/sEdO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Whataretheimportantthingsinyourlife?Peoplehavedifferentideasaboutthisquestion.Youareaskedtowriteanarticleo
A、threebillionpeopleinfouryearsB、threemillionpeopleinfouryearsC、fourmillionpeopleinthreeyearsD、threemillionp
Theterm"TheLostGeneration"mainlyreferstotheAmericangenerationofyoungpeopleafter
TheAmericanFamilyWe’lllearntheAmericanfamiliesfromthefollowingfiveaspects;1.Familystructures1)Immediatefamily
Whenyoustarttalkingaboutgoodandbadmannersyouimmediatelystartmeetingdifficulties.Manypeoplejustcannotagreewhat
AccordingtoJanet,thefactorthatwouldmostaffectnegotiationsis
1InproposedchangestoTitleIX,thefederallawprohibitingsexdiscriminationineducation,theBushadministrationwant
TheArtofListeningI.Inthelastlecture,Communicationcompetence:1)personalmotivation2)communicationknowledge3)(1)__
HowtoGettheMostfromYourCollegeProfessorI.Dailyroutineincollege—Getupinthemorning—Gotoattend(1)_____—Goan
Rarelydoesitgetmuchmoreironic.MarcHauser,aprofessorofpsychologyatHarvardwhomadehisnameprobingtheevolutionary
随机试题
试述从财务管理环节角度来说,财务管理的方法有哪些。
初孕妇,30岁,妊娠38+3周,诊断为中度妊娠高血压综合征。待产过程中发生抽搐,护士应首要采取的措施是
A.苯海索B.氟哌噻醇C.氯氮平D.氯丙嗪E.硫必利氯丙嗪引起的迟发性运动障碍的解救药是
记入总分类账户的金额与记入其所属的几个明细分类账户的金额之和应该相等。()
运用战术资产配置的前提条件不包括()。[2015年12月真题]
甲上市公司(以下简称“甲公司”)因面临严重财务困难,于2013年进行了重大重组,有关资料如下:资料一:甲公司跟其最大股东A公司签订《资产收购协议》,将甲公司所属全部资产及负债作价2.5亿元出售给A公司,A公司以其将持有的乙有限责任公司(以下简称
事业单位要执行国家有关财务、价格等管理制度,只需接受财税部门的监督。()
有一周长600米的环形跑道,甲、乙二人同时、同地、同向而行,甲每分钟跑300米,乙每分钟跑400米,经过()分钟两人第一次相遇。
在我国环境立法中,“环境污染和其他公害”这种表述源于()。
•Youwillhearapublicrelationsmanagertellingaboutthewaytommonthecharm.•Asyoulisten,forquestions1-12,complete
最新回复
(
0
)