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Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, feel
Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, feel
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2010-09-25
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Television eats out our substance. Mander calls this the mediation of experience. "With TV what we see, hear, touch, smell, feel and understand about the world has been processed for us." When we "cannot distinguish with certainty the natural from the interpreted, or the artificial from the organic, all theories of the ideal organization of life become equal."
In other words, TV teaches that all lifestyles and values are equal, and that there is no clearly defined fight and wrong. In Amusing Ourselves to Death, one of the best recent books on the tyranny of television, Neil Postman wonders why nobody has pointed out that television possibly oversteps the instructions in the Bible.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many of the traditional standards end mores of society came under heavy assault. Indeed, they were blown apart, largely with the help of one’s own. There was an air of unreality about many details of daily life. Even important moral questions suffered distortion when they were reduced to TV images. During the Vietnam conflict, there was much graphic violence-soldiers and civilians actually dying-on screen. One scene that shocked the nation was an execution in which the victim was shot in the head with a pistol on prime-time TV. People "tuned in" to the war every night, end controversial issues about the causes, conduct, and resolution of the conflict could be summed up in these superficial broadcasts.
The same phenomenon was seen again in the Gulf War. With stirring background music and sophisticated computer graphics, each network’s banner script read across the screen, "War in the Gulf," as if it were just another TV program. War isn’t a program-it is a dirty, bloody mess. People are killed daily. Yet, television all but teaches that this carnage merely is mother diversion, a form of blockbuster entertainment-the big show with all the international stars present.
In the last years of his life, Malcolm Muggeridge, a pragmatic and print journalist, warned: "From the first moment I was in the studio, I felt that it was far from being a good thing. I felt that television would ultimately be inimical to what I most appreciate, which is the expression of truth, expressing your reactions to life in words." He concluded: "I don’t think people are going to be preoccupied with ideas. I think they are going to live in a fantasy world where you don’t need any ideas. The one thing that television can’t do is expressing ideas. There is a danger in translating life into an image, end that is what television is doing. It is thus falsifying life. Recorder of what is going on, it is the exact opposite. It cannot convey reality nor does it even want to."
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
选项
A、There is no clearly defined right and wrong in TV images.
B、Television doesn’t express ideas although it is intended to convey troth.
C、Translating life into an image is more effective than expressing reactions to life in words in teaching life values.
D、TV presentation of images records what is going on objectively.
答案
A
解析
推断题。由文章第二段第一句可知,电视图像中没有明确的对错之分,所以A正确。由文章最后一句中 cannot convey reality可知,电视报道不可能。objectively,排除D项;B项中intended to convey truth与同一句后半部分nor does it even want to矛盾,排除;由文章最后一段倒数第四句可排除C项。
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