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28. Is it true that media pay too much attention to the personal lives offamous people?
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television,newspapers, magazines, and other media pay too much attention to the personallives of famous people such as public figures and celebrities. Use specificreasons and details to explain your opinion.
『分析』
不能附和这个观念——因为这样的说法过于片面。 有.些.媒体(群众传媒mass media)体现得过于重视名人。可是真实的缘由(the realcause)却是群众(the public; the broad masses of thepeople)本身——群众过于重视名人以及名人的私日子。媒体不过是在 投合群众(cater to the needs of customers; 曩昔几年里,电视一向投合群众的口味。 In the past several years, television has been playing to thegallery.)，因为媒体也是商业机构(commercial organization)， 也要盈利(profit-driving)。不.是.所.有.媒体都在一味投合群众，也不是一切的television program, newspaper column都在重视名人。
『范文』 It is true that television programs concerning personal lives ofcelebrities always receive the highest audience rating. It is also true thatnewspapers and magazines are constantly reporting stories, which are usuallybeyond confirmation, about famous people, and that autobiographies written bypublic figures are always on the top 10 best-sellers' list. It seems that welive in a world where a few individuals are drawing nearly all attentions.Nevertheless, it is not exactly precise to criticize the mass media, includingtelevision, newspapers, magazines and so forth, for paying too much focus on thepersonal lives of famous people such as public figures and celebrities. In fact,it is the public, to a large extent, rather than mass media, that is paying toomuch attention on personal lives of celebrities. Most organizations of massmedia industry, being inherently commercial, are driven by business motivations.Television program producers, as well as columnists and writers, are alwaysaware of what the public want to see, therefore tend to pander to tastes of thepublic. To put in another way, the mass media is audience-oriented, and thephenomenon is well interpreted and manipulated that when famous people such asactors, athletes and rock stars give their opinions, many people listen. It isthe nature of the public, who are curious enough about personal lives of famouspeople, since they can never be famous. On the other hand, it is holisticallydetrimental for the society if the mass media pay too much focus on famous fewso as to ignore the rest of the individuals. After all, the mission of the massmedia is not merely to cater to the needs of customers, but has a much widerscope, such as to tell the truth, to define what is good and what is bad; topromote cultural values, and the list could be endless. More popular scienceprograms should be produced by television, more reports on poor rural livesshould be publicized, more books concerning not famous but respectable peoplesuch as, nurses who are fighting SARS fearlessly, teachers who are performingtheir duties regardless of poverty of remote villages, journalists who publicizetheir pieces under politica
l menace, and this is another endless list should bewritten.
