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发表于 2010-7-31 20:22:25
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Date 31/07/2010
Topic: (09.02.21 NA) Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Newspapers and magazines are the best ways to learn about a foreign
I totally disagree with the claim that newspapers and magazines are the best ways to learn about a foreign. As a matter of fact, nowadays has witnessed an unprecedented innovation of science, which has completely changed the way we communicate, declaring that the era of newspapers and magazines has far gone with the replacement of new media, using electronic facilities such as TV and computers, which, I firmly believe, is the best way to capture information, including the multi-knowledge about a foreign. While on the other hand, taking what concerns me into consideration, I firmly hold the idea that newspapers and magazines have insurmountable shortages.
First and foremost, compared to new media, the fresh news loaded on newspapers and magazines will be unavoidably lagged. Considering the time necessarily consumed in interviewing, composing and printing, what a foreign represents on newspapers and magazines may be a days-before foreign, or even a years-before one. On the contrary, the new media ensures us instant reports via new technology, keeping us accompany with what happens right now in the foreign.
Apart from this, the form of representing a foreign is what counts as well. What newspapers and magazines represent is regretfully merely composed of images and essays, lack of descriptions from every aspects. Differentiating from newspapers and magazines, new media create an entire digital world for viewers with various means to represent. What you have to do is to name it, and technology will ensure you get it. For example, when we are eager to having a multi-knowledge of Britain history, which one will do you more benefit, reading unsystematically organized news on newspapers and magazines, or watching a BBC video? With no doubt we will choose videos. Only in this way can we have a better understanding of the foreign, which may be totally a mystery to us.
Thus, it can conclude that newspaper and magazines are no longer the best way to learn about a foreign country. Perhaps several among us regard new media as fussy and quite a bad way to communicate due to its difficulty to control news which is unconfirmed and its potential to cause uneasiness and turmoil, especially when it is in a foreign. We have to acknowledge that new media have shortages as well as newspapers and magazines, but this can be overcome, and the application of new media will no doubt be beneficial to us. |
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