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Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughte
Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughte
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2022-08-02
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问题
Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, spoke at the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions”. Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” in society should be profit and the market. But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit”. Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous goals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking. As the hacking trial concludes—finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge—the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands. Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people. This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds. In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place. One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing. In today’s world, it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run. Perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice, fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability. The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows ______.A. generally distorted valuesB. unfair wealth distributionC. a marginalized lifestyleD. a rigid moral code
选项
A. generally distorted values
B. unfair wealth distribution
C. a marginalized lifestyle
D. a rigid moral code
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。由题干可定位到文中第五段。该段第三行指出共同教条主张社会的分类机制应该是利益。而原文一开始就对这种分类机制持否定态度。随后原文指出社会的分类机制强调的是“efficiency,flexibility,shareholder value…”这些表示利益的词,而不是表示公平、正义的词。可见,这种教义只关注利益,忽略了公平与正义,是一种扭曲的价值观。故A选项正确。原文并未提到财富分配不公的问题,B项错误。原文中说的是正直的价值观被边缘化,而不是人们生活方式被边缘化,C项排除。作者意在强调当下价值观的扭曲,而不是显示“严格的道德准则”,D项与原文内容相反。
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