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lizzyzhaoUID: 113302

It is often necessay, even desirable for political leaders to withhold information from the public.

The speaker claims that it is necessary, even desirable for political leaders to withhold information from the public.  However I believe that act is rather unwise and has much negative influences on the country.

Admittedly, as to information of some kind, the country leaders have the responsibility to keep them secret.  For example some facts about the distribution of military forces, a part of foreign policies and etc.  Once those kinds of information have been revealed, there will be irreparable damages to the country.

Aside from that, I believe that the public has the right to be informed of the real situations of their country.

The first reason is that by that means, it is possible to prevent malversation.  It is accepted that in this era of information , those who hold the information or get information earlier than others are mostly likely to success.  For example, if a company which produce air-conditioning equipment is informed beforehand that there will be a torrid weather in the coming summer, then it could increase the output of air-condition and thereby get great porfits.  On the other hand, as a mortal, every one by his nature inclines to think of self-interest, political leaders are not the exceptions.  The mere difference lies on the extent, some people repress it with the power of altruism, some people could restrict it within social morality, the others indulge in it and are regarded as selfishness. However, once the politicans or government officials are endued with the power to withhold the information from the public, some of them are likely to make use of those unpublished information to attain huge profits for themselves.  That behavior not only disobeys equity principle, incurs discontent with the government but the most important has negative influences on social lives and economy of a nation.

The second reason is that to withhold the information tends to cause public suspicion and is harmful to reliability of a government.  When the populace are aware or have the feeling that the information they hold is only a small part of the whole, they will doubt the judgement of the whole thing made by the government and believe that the government tend to hide more serious facts.  For they don’t know whether the rest of the information will have affirmative or negative affect on the whole, and have to assume that it would have the negative one.  Thus all those questions and doubts towards the government comes from the information asymmetry.  For example, in this spring, when SARS outbroke in Hongkong, and then spread rapidly in the main land, most of people were skeptical of the number of the patients publicized by the government.  That is not surprising since it is the necessary result of preventing the public from the truth in quite a long time.

The third reason is that to let the populace know the fact is conducive to enhance their enthusiasm to concern with the public affairs.  If the public is only informed of a part of one event, they are impossible to make correct judgement about the whole thing.  Then with the time past, they will become apathic about the national affairs, for all things could be left to the political leaders---the mere excetpion who know the fact.  However, if the public is informed the whole thing, they are capable of analysising and making judgements.  By that means, their patriotic consciousness is waken up, their enthusiasm is greatly impulsed, and they will actively participate in the communal affairs.

To sum up, I believe as to a democratic regime, there is no better way to keep the government uncorrput and develop the country than to make the information open to the public.

xiebaichenUID: 141032

你够厉害的，写这么多，是在规定时间内完成的吗，提供一点经验吧

paisleyUID: 64183

写得不错！IDEAS都很好，我觉得已经到点子上了。不过我觉得第二段如果能再透彻一些就更好了。

用词上，还有点中国味道。还有一些细小的语法错误。自己争取改改。

另外，段与段之间最好不要用the first reason       the second reason这样的词,总觉得比较儿科.你可以看看外国人是怎么组织段落之间的平行关系的.


希望你也能多多修改其他朋友的文章。尤其是提点结构上和想法上的建议。因为你不可能每个题目都练过来啊，看别人的题目，自己脑子过一遍,既可以给别人提建议，自己又多了一次训练的机会.为别人服务的人优先得到斑竹的修改哦！