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The sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos is just the most recent episode in the decline and fall of professional journalism
The sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos is just the most recent episode in the decline and fall of professional journalism
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2022-07-26
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The sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos is just the most recent episode in the decline and fall of professional journalism. By selling out to a mega-billionaire without any newspaper experience, the Graham family has put a priceless national asset at the mercy of a single outsider. Perhaps Jeff Bezos will use his new plaything responsibly; perhaps not; if not, one of the few remaining sources of serious journalism will be lost.
The crisis in the English-speaking world will turn into a catastrophe in smaller language zones. The English-speaking market is so large that advertisers will pay a lot to gain access to the tens of millions of readers who regularly click onto the New York Times or the Guardian. But the Portuguese-reading public is far too small to support serious journalism on the internet. What happens to Portuguese democracy when nobody is willing to pay for old-fashioned newspapers?
The blogosphere can’t be expected to take up the
slack
. First-class reporting on national and international affairs isn’t for amateurs. It requires lots of training and lots of contacts and lots of expenses. It also requires reporters with the well-honed capacity to write for a broad audience. The modern newspaper created the right incentives, but without a comparable business model for the new technology, blogging will degenerate into a postmodern nightmare—with millions spouting off without any concern for the facts.
We can’t afford to wait for the invisible hand to come up with a new way to provide economic support for serious journalism. To be sure, the financial press has proved moderately successful in persuading readers to pay for online access; and mainstream media are now trying to emulate this success. But if tens of millions of readers don’t surrender to the charms of PayPal—and quickly—now is the time for some creative thinking. For starters, it would be a mistake to rely on a BBC-style solution. After all it is one thing for government to serve as a major source of news; quite another to give it a virtual monopoly on reporting.
Enter the Internet news voucher. Under our proposal, each news article on the web will end by asking readers whether it contributed to their political understanding. If so, they can click the yes-box, and send the message to a National Endowment for Journalism—which would obtain an annual appropriation from the government. This money would be distributed to news organizations on the basis of a strict mathematical formula: the more clicks, the bigger the check from the Endowment. This way, serious journalism will succeed in gaining mass support. Common sense, as well as fundamental liberal values, counsels against any governmental effort to regulate the quality of news.
According to Paragraph 3, first-class reporting is
选项
A、highly demanding.
B、for professionals only.
C、declining in quality.
D、notoriously degenerating.
答案
A
解析
根据第三段第二至四句话:一流报道不是业余人士可以胜任的(isn’t for amateurs),它需要……,需要……,由此可以看出,一流的报道要求很高(highly demanding),故选择A项。B项“只为专业人员提供”出现常识错误,一流报道也供普罗大众阅读观看。C项“报道的质量下降”没有原文依据,不选。D项中的degenerating一词是对blogging will degenerate的误用,属于对象错误。
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