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2018美国脱口秀主持人奥普拉南加州大学演讲(视频)

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发表于 2018-5-25 22:07:32 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
  奥普拉 (Oprah Winfrey),美国著名脱口秀主持人
          在南加州大学安纳伯格新闻与传播学院的毕业典礼上,奥普拉鼓励美国未来的媒体从业人员,希望学生们能够“化身为真相”(be the
truth)、“展现真实”(exemplify honesty)。她提及了虚假新闻对整个社会的负面影响,但新一代的媒体人能够做出改变。
       
          另附英文讲稿全文:
          Thank you Wallis Annenberg and a special thank you to Dean Willow Bay for
inviting me here today. And to the parents, again I say, and to the faculty,
friends, graduates, good morning.
          I want to give a special shout out because I was happy that Dean Bay
invited me but I was going to be here anyway because one of my lovely daughter
girls attends the Annenberg School of Journalism and is getting her masters
today, so I was coming whether I was speaking or not. So a special shoutout to a
young woman who I met when she was in the seventh grade and it was the first
year that I was looking for smart, bright, giving, resilient, kind, open-hearted
girls who had “it”—that factor that means you keep going no matter what. And
this was the year that I chose everybody individually. And I remember her
walking into the office in a little township where we were doing interviews all
over South Africa and she came in and recited a poem about her teacher and when
she walked out the door I go, “That’s an ‘it’ girl.” Thando Dlomo, I’m here to
say I am so proud of you. Long way from the township in South Africa and her
Aunt has flown 30 hours to be here for this celebration today. Thank you so
much.
          Today I come bearing some good news and some bad news for anybody who
intends to build their life around your ability to communicate. So, I want to
get the bad news out first so you can be clear. I always like to get the bad
stuff upfront, so here it is: Everything around us, including—and in particular
the internet and social media—is now being used to erode trust in our
institutions, interfere in our elections, and wreak havoc on our infrastructure.
It hands advertisers a map to our deepest desires, it enables misinformation to
run rampant, attention spans to run short and false stories from phony sites to
run circles around major news outlets. We have literally walked into traffic
while staring at our phones.
          Now the good news: Many of your parents are probably taking you somewhere
really special for dinner tonight. I heard. I can do a little better than that.
Now that I have presented some of the bad news, the good news is that there
really is a solution. And the solution is each and every one of you. Because you
will become the new editorial gatekeepers, an ambitious army of truth seekers
who will arm yourselves with the intelligence, with the insight and the facts
necessary to strike down deceit. You’re in a position to keep all of those who
now disparage real news, you all are the ones that are going to keep those
people in check. Why? Because you can push back and you can answer false
narratives with real information and you can set the record straight. And you
also have the ability and the power to give voice, as Dean Bay was saying, to
people who desperately now need to tell their stories and have their stories
told.
          And this is what I do know for sure because I’ve been doing it a long time:
If you can just capture the humanity of the people of the stories you’re
telling, you then get that much closer to your own humanity. And you can
confront your bias and you can build your credibility and hone your instincts
and compound your compassion. You can use your gifts, that’s what you’re really
here to do, to illuminate the darkness in our world.
          So this is what I also know: This moment in time, this is your time to
rise. It is. Even though you can’t go anywhere, you can’t stand in line at
Starbucks, you can’t go to a party, you can’t go any place where anywhere you
turn people are talking about how bad things are, how terrible it is. And this
is what I know: The problem is everybody is meeting hysteria with more hysteria
and then we’re all becoming hysterical and it’s getting worse. What I’ve learned
all these years is that we’re not supposed to match it or even get locked into
resisting or pushing against it. We’re supposed to see this moment in time for
what it is. We’re supposed to see through it and then transcend it. That is how
you overcome hysteria. And that is how you overcome the sniping at one another,
the trolling, the mean-spirited partisanship on both sides of the aisle, the
divisiveness, the injustices, and the out-and-out hatred. You use it. Use this
moment to encourage you, to embolden you, and to literally push you into the
rising of your life. And to borrow a phrase from my beloved mentor Maya Angelou:
Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes
springing high, you will rise.
            
            
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          So your job now, let me tell you, is to take everything you’ve learned here
and use what you learned to challenge the left, to challenge the right, and the
center. When you see something, you say something, and you say it with the facts
and the reporting to back it up. Here’s what you have to do: You make the choice
everyday, every single day, to exemplify honesty because the truth, let me tell
you something about the truth, the truth exonerates and it convicts. It
disinfects and it galvanizes. The truth has always been and will always be our
shield against corruption, our shield against greed and despair. The truth is
our saving grace. And not only are you here, USC Annenberg, to tell it, to write
it, to proclaim it, to speak it, but to be it. Be the truth. Be the truth.
          So I want to get down to the real reason we’re here today. In about an hour
and a half, you’re going to be catapulted into a world that appears to have gone
off its rocker. And I can tell you I’ve hosted the Oprah show for 25 years,
number one show. Never missed a day. Never missed a day. Twenty five years,
4,561 shows. So I know how to talk, I can tell you that, but I was a little
intimidated coming here because graduations, it’s tough, it’s hard trying to
come up with something to share with you that you haven’t already heard. Any
information or guidance I can offer is nothing that your parents or your deans
or professors or Siri haven’t already provided. So I’m here to really tell you:
I don’t have any new lessons. I don’t have any new lessons. But I often think
that it’s not the new lessons so much as it is really learning the old ones
again and again.
          So here are variations on a few grand themes beginning with this: Pick a
problem, any problem, the list is long. Here are just a few that are at the top
of my list. There’s gun violence and there’s climate change, there’s systemic
racism, economic inequality, media bias. The homeless need opportunity, the
addicted need treatment, the Dreamers need protection, the prison system needs
reforming, the LGBTQ community needs acceptance, the social safety net needs
saving, and the misogyny needs to stop. Needs to stop. But you can’t fix
everything and you can’t save every soul. But what can you do? Here and now I
believe you have to declare war on one of our most dangerous enemies, and that
is cynicism. Because when that little creature sinks its hooks into you, it’ll
cloud your clarity, it’ll compromise your integrity, it’ll lower your standards,
it’ll choke your empathy. And sooner or later, cynicism shatters your faith.
When you hear yourself saying, “Ah, it doesn’t matter what one person says, oh
well, so what, it doesn’t matter what I do, who cares?” When you hear yourself
saying that, know that you’re on a collision course for our culture. And I
understand how it’s so easy to become disillusioned, so tempting to allow apathy
to set in, because anxiety is being broadcast on 157 channels, 24 hours a day,
all night long. And everyone I know is feeling it. But these times, these times,
are here to let us know that we need to take a stand for our right to have hope
and we need to take a stand with every ounce of wit and courage we can
muster.
            
            
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          The question is: What are you willing to stand for? That question is going
to follow you throughout your life. And here’s how you answer it. You put your
honor where your mouth is. Put your honor where your mouth is. When you give
your word, keep it. Show up. Do the work. Get your hands dirty. And then you’ll
begin to draw strength from the understanding that history is still being
written. You’re writing it every day. The wheels still in spin. And what you do
or what you don’t do will be a part of it. You build a legacy not from one thing
but from everything. I remember when I just opened my school in 2007, I came
back and I had the great joy of sitting at Maya Angelou’s table. She hadn’t been
able to attend the opening in South Africa. And I said to her, “Oh Maya, the
Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, that’s going to be my greatest legacy.” I
remember she was standing at the counter making biscuits, and she turned, she
put the dough down, and she looked at me and she said, “You have no idea what
your legacy will be.” I said, “Excuse me? I just opened this school and these
girls, and it’s going to be… ” And she said, “You have no idea what your legacy
will be, because your legacy is every life you touch. Every life you touch.”
That changed me.
          And it’s true, you can’t personally stop anybody from walking into a school
with an assault rifle, nor can you singlehandedly ensure that the rights that
your mothers and grandmothers fought so hard for will be preserved for the
daughters you may someday have. And it’ll take more than you alone to pull more
than 40 million Americans out of poverty, but who will you be if you don’t care
enough to try? And what mountains could we move, I think, what gridlock could we
eradicate if we were to join forces and work together in service of something
greater than ourselves? You know my deepest satisfactions and my biggest rewards
have come from exactly that. Pick a problem, any problem, and do something about
it. Because to somebody who’s hurting, something is everything. So, I hesitate
to say this, because the rumors from my last big speech have finally died down,
but here it is. Vote. Vote. Vote. Pay attention to what the people who claim to
represent you are doing and saying in your name and on your behalf. They
represent you and if they’ve not done right by you or if their policies are at
odds with your core beliefs, then you have a responsibility to send them
packing. If they go low, thank you Michelle Obama, if they go low, we go to the
polls. People died for that right, they died for that right. I think about it
every time I vote. So don’t let their sacrifices be in vain.
          A couple other thoughts before I go. Eat a good breakfast. It really pays
off. Pay your bills on time. Recycle. Make your bed. Aim high. Say thank you to
people and actually really mean it. Ask for help when you need it, and put your
phone away at the dinner table. Just sit on it, really. And know that what you
tweet and post and Instagram today might be asked about at a job interview
tomorrow, or 20 years from tomorrow. Be nice to little kids, be nice to your
elders, be nice to animals, and know that it’s better to be interested than
interesting. Invest in a quality mattress. I’m telling you, your back will thank
you later. And don’t cheap out on your shoes. And if you’re fighting with
somebody you really love, for god’s sakes find your way back to them because
life is short, even on our longest days. And another thing, another thing you
already definitely know that definitely bears repeating, don’t ever confuse what
is legal with what is moral because they are entirely different animals. You
see, in a court of law, there are loopholes and technicalities and bargains to
be struck, but in life, you’re either principled or you’re not. So do the right
thing, especially when nobody’s looking. And while I’m at it, do not equate
money and fame with accomplishment and character, because I can assure you based
on the thousands of people I’ve interviewed, one does not automatically follow
the other.
          Something else, something else. You need to know this. Your job is not
always going to fulfill you. There will be some days that you just might be
bored. Other days, you may not feel like going to work at all. Go anyway, and
remember that your job is not who you are, it’s just what you are doing on the
way to who you will become. Every remedial chore, every boss who takes credit
for your ideas -- that is going to happen -- look for the lessons, because the
lessons are always there. And the number one lesson I could offer you where your
work is concerned is this: Become so skilled, so vigilant, so flat-out fantastic
at what you do that your talent cannot be dismissed.
          And finally, this: This will save you. Stop comparing yourself to other
people. You’re only on this planet to be you, not someone else’s imitation of
you. I had to learn that the hard way, on the air, live, anchoring the news. One
night in my twenties, when I first started broadcasting, I was 19, moved to an
anchor by the time I was 20. I was just pretending to be Barbara Walters. I was
trying to talk like Barbara, act like Barbara, hold my legs like Barbara. And I
was on the air, I hadn’t read the copy fully, and I called Canada, Canahdah. I
cracked myself up, because I thought, Barbara would never call Canada Canahdah.
And that little breakthrough, that little crack, that little moment that I
stopped pretending allowed the real me to come through. Your life journey is
about learning to become more of who you are and fulfilling the highest, truest
expression of yourself as a human being. That’s why you’re here. You will do
that through your work and your art, through your relationships and love.
          And to quote Albert Einstein, “Education is what remains after we forget
what we’re taught.” You’ve learned a lot here at USC. And when all that you’ve
been taught begins to fade into the fabric of your life, I hope that what
remains is your ability to analyze, to make distinctions, to be creative, and to
wander down that road less traveled whenever you have the opportunity. And I
hope that when you go, you go all in, and that your education helps you to walk
that road with an open, discerning mind. Discernment is what we’re missing. And
a kind heart. You know, there are 7 billion people on the planet right now. And
here you are. Your degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and
Journalism: This degree you’re about to get is a privilege. It’s a privilege.
And that privilege obligates you to use what you’ve learned to lend a hand to
somebody who doesn’t get to be here. Somebody who’s never had a ceremony like
the one you’re having this morning.
          So I hold you in the light, and I wish you curiosity and confidence. And I
wish you ethics and enlightenment. I wish you guts. Every great decision I’ve
ever made I trusted my gut. And goodness. I wish you purpose and the passion
that goes along with that purpose. And here’s what I really hope: I hope that
every one of you contributes to the conversation of our culture and our time.
And to some genuine communication, which means, you have to connect to people
exactly where they are; not where you are, but where they are. And I hope you
shake things up. And when the time comes to bet on yourself, I hope you double
down. Bet on yourself. I hope you always know how happy and how incredibly
relieved everybody is in this room is that you’ve made it to this place, at this
time, on this gorgeous day. Congratulations USC Annenberg Class of 2018!
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