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28. Do you agree or disagree with the followingstatement? Television,
newspapers, magazines, and other media pay too muchattention to the personal
lives of famous people such as public figures andcelebrities. Use specific
reasons and details to explain your opinion.
参考分析：
不能同意这个观点——因为这样的说法过于片面。
有些媒体(大众传媒mass media)表现得过于关注名人。但是真正的起因(the real cause)却是大众(the public; the broad masses of the people)本身——大众过于关注名人以及名人的私生活。媒体不过是在迎合大众(cater to the needs of customers;过去几年里,电视一直迎合大众的口味。In the past several years, television has been playing to the gallery.)，因为媒体也是商业机构(commercial organization)，也要盈利(profit-driving)。
不是所有媒体都在一味迎合大众，也不是所有的television program, newspaper column都在关注名人。
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28、同意电视等媒体过分注重公众人物的报道
（1）媒体为了满足大众的好奇心（SATISFY THE CURIOSITY），所以过分注重公众人物的报道。比如说，名人的食品和生活方式等等。
（2）媒体为了赚钱的需要，集中在公共人物的报道。
（3）媒体为了监督公众人物。所以经常报道他们的私生活。
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Topic 28Media and celebrities
In this global information age where newspapers or magazinesare always
handy and TV has already turned so many people into couch tomatoes,few people
concern about what these mass media has brought to us; we just acceptit anyway.
While I think the current focus on personal lives of famous peopleby these media
requires further consideration.
Admittedly, it is reasonable for those media tocontinuously pay great
attention to celebrities, the present fierce competitionof the various media,
the hard-to-pleased audiences' taste, the bombasticeffect of coverage of these
shining figures. No surprise sometimes that we feelwe just know more than those
famous people than themselves.
However, the consequence of such intense coverage on publicfigures'
personal lives not only violate those beingfocused on a certain level,but also
do harm to us beinginformed in some ways. Firstly, the privacy ofthose
celebrities is ineluctably encroached from time to time.Sometimes theresult is
sad - do not forget the tragedy of Princess Diana. Secondly, ourattention is
certainly being diverted by such tide of craziness aboutcelebrities. What about
those viewers who want to see something about ordinarypeople' lives? How can
mass media not concern more about those people sufferingfrom pain and
poverty?
Furthermore, one of the significant results of thecurrent fad on famous
figures is that their behavior is so influential while atthe same time the media
have little guarantee to ensure what the say and dowill not mislead the mass
public and even cause more problems. For example, ifa famous figure is being
asked about his or her point of view in a field he orshe is not quite
acquainted, the words presented to the audience may bemisleading. This is
especially harmful to those young people who are morelikely to watch those
programs of their idols, and also are mostly vulnerableto influential but
harmful sayings.
In a sense, I do not quite appreciate the coverage of peoplein the center
of spotlight, maybe once the mass media turn a little bit fromtheir current
focus to other aspects of the society, they may find out that theworld is
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:22:39