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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement.
Newspapers and magazines is the best way of learning about a foreign country.

With the arrival of a brand new information-explosion era, we can learn about a foreign country in various ways like newspapers, magazines, internet, to name just a few. Accordingly, when it comes to the statement above, I agree with the broad assertion that through newspapers and magazines to learn foreign country is a good way. However, from my perspective, it is not the best one. My points of contention with the statement involve the quality and quantity of the information, as discussed below.

Admittedly, I concede that a good approach to see a foreign country is reading newspapers and magazines. After all, we can acquire a large scale of information about foreign countries in daily newspapers and magazines. For example, every time when I open up the paper, different sorts of information about foreign country is accessible, such as political news, sports and culture. Yet, those messages conveyed by newspapers and magazines seem too specific. In other words, it is too difficult for us to get a large picture of a foreign country. Besides, since the newspapers always concerns about the hottest topic, some important but not latest information would be ignored.

The chief reason why I fundamentally disagree with the statement involves the quality of information. In other words, no newspaper or magazine can describe a foreign country precisely. Nowadays, press industry is driven by functionality, which means all newspapers and magazines do their utmost to pander to readers. Providing magnificent
scenery pictures and descriptions, newspapers and magazines can draw people’s attention easily. As a consequence, it is obvious that we cannot learn about a foreign in high quality, namely it is hard for us to know a real country.

Another compelling reason for my essential objection to the statement has to do with the quantity of the information about a foreign. Considering the development of internet, newspapers and magazines seem pale in importance compared to internet in terms of obtaining information. So little is the amount of information in newspaper that we cannot even get the information we want. For example, every time when I want to know something about travel, the only thing I can get is political news in a newspaper. Although an extra to the China Daily---one of the most popular newspapers I read, about traveling will publish weekly, the quantity of news leaves much to be desired. On the other hand, surfing the internet must be a better approach. By clicking some buttons and inputting the keywords, we can get any information we need.

In the final analysis, from what have been discussed above, I may confidently arrive at the conclusion that although newspapers and magazines play an essential role in learning about a foreign country, their disadvantages far outweighs the merits in the aspects of quality and quantity compared with internet and other methods.

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