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How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, i

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问题     How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, instead of a brain, a plate of lemon jelly? Last week the debate was raging once again about the controversial and important point as to whether the newsreaders write their own copy, read someone else’s or simply make it up as they go along. Angela Rippon reckoned that she had never heard of a newsreader writing stuff, but her modern counterpart, the beautiful Sophie Raworth, claims that they do the writing and adds that she has a postgraduate degree in journalism.
    This is the core of the issue: what on earth is there to learn about journalism at postgraduate level? The point and purpose of our lowly, occasionally useful, trade could be scribbled on the back of a postage stamp and would easily be comprehended by a 14-year-old boy with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Who has decided that it must be dignified with a doctoral thesis?
    Nor is reading the news even what one might call "journalism". It is an even simpler business called "reading". All that the BBC demands of its female newsreaders is an ability to read in an impartial way words like "Israel has murdered more Lebanese children again today" from the teleprompter without belching or lisping. It helps if they have the eminently presentable manner of a girl guide leader from Esher. They are forbidden to express an opinion. They are not required to go undercover, analyze the news or add witty asides. They are required to be that which they are known as in the trade—"a gob on a stick". A penetrating intelligence is not merely unnecessary, it is counterproductive.
    Newsreaders who are too intelligent soon stop being newsreaders, much as John Humphrys did, stifled by the commonplace of their duties. Or they give the game away by doing what that German newsreader did and end the programme, shaking their heads sadly, muttering, "it’s all lies, all lies".
    Which is not to say BBC newsreaders are bad at their jobs: quite the reverse. But we should not confuse competence with intelligence. Newsreaders believe that because they are reading out serious stuff and everybody is listening to them, they must therefore be creatures possessed of a high IQ. They are confusing the message with the medium.
The author holds in the first two paragraphs that a postgraduate degree in journalism
选项 A、is quite unnecessary for newsreaders.
B、is vital for a newsreader to write stuff.
C、matters quite a lot for a newsreader.
D、involves no learning about journalism.
答案A
解析 第一段末出现postgraduate degree in journalism，第二段开头作者就以一个反问句表明自己对新闻学硕士学位的置疑，该段以反问句结尾，“谁说干这行非得有博士文凭才够品?”可以看出作者并不认为播音员一定要具备硕士文凭，故A项正确。B、C两项与文意相反；D项是对第二段第一句话的曲解。
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