新编英语教程5下anewenglishcourselevel5(unit8-15课文整理)

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lic mood of defeatism and despair, which in themselves tend to be inhibitors of progress. An unrelieved diet of eruptive news depletes the essential human energies a free society needs. A mood of hopelessness and cynicism is hardly likely to furnish the energy needed to meet serious challenges. 9 I am not suggesting that ―positive‖ news be contrived as an antidote to the disasters on page one. Nor do I define positive news as indepth reportage of functions of the local YMCA. What I am trying to get across is the notion that the responsibility of the news media is to search out and report on important events whether or not they e under the heaven and hell, and both sectors call for attention and scrutiny. 10 My hope is that the profession of journalism will soon see its responsibility in a wider perspective. The time has e to consider the existence of a large area of human happenings that legitimately qualify as news. For example, how many news articles have been written about nitrogenfixation the process by which plants can be made to ―fix‖ their own nitrogen, thus reducing the need for fertilizer? Scientists all over the world are now pursuing this prospect in the hope of bating famine. How much is known about the revolutionary changes being made in increasing the rice harvest in the Far East? There are literally dozens of similar important development in the world that are worthy of inclusion in any roundup of major new stories. 11 The anchorman and editor were right in saying that newsmen and women are not responsible for shaping the world. But they are responsible for affecting our attitudes. We are only what we think we are。 we can achieve only those goals we dare to envision. News people provide us with the only picture we have of ourselves and of the world. It had better be a true portrait – and not a caricature – for it is this picture on which we will base our decisions and around which we will plan our future. 12 The journalist, to paraphrase Walter Lippmann, is the public‘s philosopher. ― The acquired culture,‖ Lippmann wrote, ―is not transmitted in our genes. The good life in the good society, though attainable, is never attained and possessed once and for all. What has been attained will again be lost if the wisdom of the good life in a good society is not transmitted.‖ 13 With an accurate report of the good life in the good society, we can begin to use the news as Bernard de Chartres suggested we use history – boosting ourselves up on our experiences, ―like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants,‖ enabled, thus, ―to see more things than the Americans and things more distant.‖ From: . Clayes et al, . TEXT II （ P 113） Should the Press Be Human Katharine Whitehorn 1. If you were asked who shot Lee Harvey Oswald you would probably say Jack Ruby, But there39。 s another possible answer to the question: the photographer who shot those staggering pictures of Ruby gunning him down. And what has teased my mind ever since is wondering whether, if he had dropped his camera and grabbed the gunman, we might, with Oswald alive, know more than we will now ever be able to find out about Why Kennedy died. 2. Journalists and TV people, we know, are supposed to record what goes on。 but in trying to get the best record they can, they may sometimes seem amazingly coldblooded. In the massacre that followed the British quitting India, there was a photographer who made a sorrowing Indian family bury and rebury its dead several times till he got a perfect shot. A BBC sound man held up a Nigerian execution for half an hour while he adjusted his sound equipment。 you could say it didn39。 t make any difference to the final oute, but it doesn39。 t make you feel especially warm towards the man concerned. 3. Should these journalists and photographers join in, or just stand back and watch while people kill one another? It39。 s a tricky ethical question, not just a matter of how brave anyone is feeling at the time。 because without authentic pictures, how will the world know, how should the world believe what atrocities are mitted? One dead photographer does not do much for the cause he cares about, even if he did feel pelled to weigh in and take sides. 4. Our professional ethic enjoins us to stay unmitted and report the facts。 and, if we have to have guidelines, that39。 s probably as good a one as any. Certainly some of the seediest of journalists, whether we39。 re talking about the Middle Easy or Northern Ireland, are those who pile on one set of adjectivessqualid, butchering, oppressivefor terrorism of whose aims they disapprove, and quite another setmitted, dedicatedfor the same thing done by those they like. 新编英语教程 5 下 (Unit 815全册课文整理版 ) ants 05 3 5. But it leaves out a lot. My plaint journalists, a friend of mine once said, is not that they behave badly in the course of duty, but their inability to recoil into a human being when it39。 s over. I have not fotten an occasion over 20 years ago, when a birdman was going to jump from a Pressfilled Rapide. He got his equipment tangled with the airplane in some way, and plunged to his death. As most of them watched in shocked horror, one newsman ran down the plane with the words: My God, what a story! 6. To stay out of the fight, to write down what39。 s going on, to treat equally with both sides, as a doctor will stitch up soldiers in either uniform or a lawyer argue for either sidethat is supposed to be our code。 and when it es to the crunch, we probably do better trying to stick to that, than rushing off on individual impulse. 7. But is there not a point in any profession where you are forced back against the wall as a human being, where a doctor should hand Jack the Ripper over to the police and a lawyer refuse to suppress the bloodstained evidence that proves his client a torturer? I think there。