搜索关注在线英语听力室公众号:tingroom,领取免费英语资料大礼包。
(单词翻译)
2016 Presidential Campaign Presents Unusual Media Challenges
The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign has presented unusual challenges to the reporters and media outlets1 covering it. One of the tenets of serious journalism2 in America is balance, but controversial statements from the Republican candidate, Donald Trump3, and allegations from the right of a liberal bias4 among the media in favor of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, have spurred debates, transforming political reporting itself into one of the election storylines. There is uncertain terrain5 that the news media are trying to navigate6 in this election campaign.
The media have become protagonists7 in the 2016 presidential campaign, and that is mostly due to Donald Trump, said Tom Rosenstiel of the American Press Institute.
“Donald Trump in particular, and the Republican Party more general, made the press a character in the campaign, by saying that the press was incompetent8, out to get them, a level of demonization of the press that we don’t usually see,” he said.
Bipartisan bias claims
While the Trump surrogates claim bias, Clinton’s supporters have accused the media of “false balance,” suggesting that things she has said - presented as evidence of her not being honest - are not equivalent to the evidence of Donald Trump not being honest.
“But if my job today in the story, is to examine what Hillary Clinton said and is it true or not, I am going to go after that, as hard as I can, I am not going to say, ‘Well, I think this is only three quarters as serious as what Donald Trump did yesterday in the story I did, so I am only going to cover it at three quarters intensity9.' You don’t!”
Dori Toribio, a Washington correspondent with RTVE, Spanish Radio and Television, says she does not believe that reporters have been biased10.
“Media are criticizing Donald Trump because of what he does, and what he says. It’s not because of an ideological11 or political bias,” she said.
Latino reporter covering Trump
Toribio said, even though it has been particularly hard for her as an immigrant and a woman to cover Trump, who has denigrated12 immigrants and women. she has striven to be neutral.
For Thomas Burr of the National Press Club, the job of a reporter is to tell fact from fiction.
“That’s doing the critical, vital role a journalist has to have in a democracy, to educate voters and the public about what a candidate is saying, whether it’s truthful13 or not,” he said.
Observer mode best
But Rosenstiel said there would be an enormous cost if journalists played arbiter14.
“What we need of our journalists are people who say: my commitment is to be an observer on behalf of other citizens, to find out the truth about what happened, what was said, why, what the motivations were, but ultimately it is the job of the citizen to determine what that means,” he said.
In the end, whoever enters in the White House next January, this will have been a memorable15 and unusual campaign, for the candidates in the race, but also for the reporters covering it.
1 outlets | |
n.出口( outlet的名词复数 );经销店;插座;廉价经销店 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 journalism | |
n.新闻工作,报业 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 trump | |
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 bias | |
n.偏见,偏心,偏袒;vt.使有偏见 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 terrain | |
n.地面,地形,地图 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 navigate | |
v.航行,飞行;导航,领航 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7 protagonists | |
n.(戏剧的)主角( protagonist的名词复数 );(故事的)主人公;现实事件(尤指冲突和争端的)主要参与者;领导者 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8 incompetent | |
adj.无能力的,不能胜任的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9 intensity | |
n.强烈,剧烈;强度;烈度 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10 biased | |
a.有偏见的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11 ideological | |
a.意识形态的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
12 denigrated | |
v.诋毁,诽谤( denigrate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
13 truthful | |
adj.真实的,说实话的,诚实的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
14 arbiter | |
n.仲裁人,公断人 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
15 memorable | |
adj.值得回忆的,难忘的,特别的,显著的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
本文本内容来源于互联网抓取和网友提交,仅供参考,部分栏目没有内容,如果您有更合适的内容,欢迎 点击提交 分享给大家。