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发表于 2012-7-18 00:47:05
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Recently, we have so many sources of news and information, so that we cannot tell which one is the real one or who is telling the truth.
The past decades have seen the remarkable changes in technology. Coming to an age of information has greatly changed people’s horizon (I'm not quite sure what 'people's horizon' means here, but usually horizons in the metaphorical sense is broadened, not 'changed'..). Some people claim that the big bang of information disables them from telling which one ('one' what? horizon?) is correct or not, which I am strongly against.
First and foremost, we cannot deny that we are in an information age where messages spread out in the air (I'm not sure what you mean to convey here. Messages physically being spread out in the air would be rather comical, so it sounds like you're describing radio, which is quite a thing of the past by now. Otherwise, most informational signals are now physically carried by cables – the internet, the television and all.). Through the internet, we can have access to the message we want to know without a second (The negation of 'within' is not 'without'..).
Additionally, the newly born media like microblog and Facebook have greatly promoted the traditional media to improve the speed of information spreading. Pressing a few buttons on your phone, you can have what you have seen and what you have heard spread out as far as you want, no matter it is true or not.
However, this cannot be the excuse that we cannot tell the truth ourselves. Before the internet has been applied widely, we cannot even know the people in a nearby city, not to speak of international news. (There was this thing called radio broadcast..) At that time, we have nearly no idea about what is going on outside. Back to now, we can have access to any information we want, the only thing we need to do is to find the real one among them. Which is easier now? (I don't know which is easier. You're supposed to argue and persuade me that one is easier than the other, and so far you've only described the two sides being compared..)
Moreover, we have many effective ways to help us find out what is true. We can use a search engine to help sort information out and get the really useful intelligence. (A search engine doesn't sort information for you..it only provides a list of relevant sources, and it's up to you to sort the information out yourself..) Also we can put our problems on the internet to let others to give suggestions. (But how would you know whose suggestion is truly useful or genuine?) For us, being rational and calm in analyzing information really matters a lot. If we can use these resources and have an eagle's eye, it will be an easy job to find out the truth.
In a nutshell, having a lot of options is better than having nothing. Using the convenience that technology has brought to us and our great brain, truth can hide no more. (Right, but the human brain would have limits – and this is actually what the question is all about: that having too many sources of information would overwhelm our judgment so we can't tell which sources are true, or are not true. You've basically focused only on 'information', and beaten around the point about using one's judgment, but there's not much solid argument on how exactly using one's judgment would cope with 'so many sources' in particular.)
总结:
这篇文还是很空的说。。基本上你就讲了两点:1 现在的信息是很多,但是我们还是可以看出真假 2 我们要用脑就可以看出信息真假。。问题是你没法/没有通过论述的方式支持你的要点,你所提出的两点都只是停留在unsupported statement/claim。。
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