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Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers? The Am

游客2025-04-02  26
问题     Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers? The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep into a long self-analysis known as the journalism credibility project.
    Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want.
    But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each day’s events. In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.
    There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which helps explain why the "standard templates" of the newsroom seem alien to many readers. In a recent survey, questionnaires were sent to reporters in five middle-size cities around the country, plus one large metropolitan area. Then residents in these communities were phoned at random and asked the same questions.
    Replies show that compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes, and trade stocks, and they’re less likely to go to church, do volunteer work, or put down roots in a community.
    Reporters tend to be part of a broadly defined social and cultural elite, so their work tends to reflect the conventional values of this elite. The astonishing distrust of the news media isn’t rooted in inaccuracy or poor reportorial skills but in the daily clash of world views between reporters and their readers.
    This is an explosive situation for any industry, particularly a declining one. Here is a troubled business that keeps hiring employees whose attitudes vastly annoy the customers. Then it sponsors lots of symposiums and a credibility project dedicated to wondering why customers are annoyed and fleeing in large numbers. But it never seems to get around to noticing the cultural and class biases that so many former buyers are complaining about. If it did, it would open up its diversity program, not focused narrowly on race and gender, and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook, values, education, and class. [br] The basic problem of journalists as pointed out by the writer lies in their ______.
选项 A、working attitude
B、conventional lifestyle
C、world outlook
D、educational background
答案 C
解析 从文章第3段的内容可知，大多数新闻记者学会了以一种标准模式去看世界，并用这种模式来宣传每天发生的事件。从第4段的内容可知，新闻记者和读者之间存在一种社会和文化断层。从第5段的内容可知，与其他美国人相比，新闻记者更可能在高级社区居住，雇女佣、开奔驰、玩股票，而不大可能做礼拜、当志愿者或者在一般社区居住。从第6段的内容可知，记者可以说是社会和文化精英，因此他们的工作往往反映出上层的价值观。读者对新闻媒体令人惊讶的怀疑并不是由于报道有误或报道技术的问题，而是因为记者与读者之间世界观的日常冲突。据此可知，作者认为，新闻记者的根本问题在于他们与读者的世界观不同。C项与文章的意思相符，因此C项为正确答案。
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