1 . Print newspapers dominated the early 1900s, but in November 1922, the dawn of radio news arrived when the BBC launched its first daily radio service. It marketed itself as news by and for social elites (精英), and broadcasters were required to use “received pronunciation”. News shifted to television broadcasting in the 1950s.
The creation of the WorldWideWeb in the 1990s changed things again. The internet has become a key site for sharing information, and news is more accessible than it has ever been before. Crises can be reported from on the ground by people who directly understand them. Stories can be shared with the click of a button which can be dangerous. In the time it takes for a story to move from a news site to Facebook to your WhatsApp group chat, context lost and facts go unchecked.
In 2016, we witnessed a BBC watershed moment for the news landscape. Negative coverage was the order of the day in the general election. Clinton was criticized for everything from her speaking style to her use of emails. As Clinton was being attacked in the press, Donald Trump was attacking the press, claiming that it is was trying to “influence” the election in her favor. The news is not about what’s ordinary or expected, but what’s new and different, better yet when filled with anger and conflict. Following the election troubled by dishonesty and misinformation spread largely on social media, Oxford Dictionaries announced “post-truth” as its international word of the year. Frequency of the word’s usage rose by 2,000 percent that year.
With so much information at our fingertips, the massive volume news can be ovenwhelming. Couple this with the increasing uncertainty about what is true and what is not, it is perhaps no wonder that recent years have seen the birth of the “slow journalism” movement. First coined in 2007 by Susan Greenberg, it invites us to slow down and really pay attention to what’s happening around us.
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?| A．The target audience of BBC, | B．The key to News’ development. |
| C．The transformation in news reporting. | D．The qualifications of BBC’s reporters. |
| A．It marks what good news is about. |
| B．It provides people with the best choice. |
| C．It fails to satisfy people’s sharing demand. |
| D．It contributes much to ungoverned information. |
| A．BBC news gained wide popularity. |
| B．Negative news sells and travels wide. |
| C．Facts are more influential than emotion appeals. |
| D．More supervision should be added in the election. |
| A．Negative news also bears value just as the positive news. |
| B．Great importance should be attached to news’ truthfulness. |
| C．The information on social media is uncertain and unreliable. |
| D．People are overwhelmed with massive volume news nowadays. |
