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How News Becomes Opinion and Opinion Off-limits Para.18, 19, 24 Main idea (Para. 18--19) The writers attitude towards protection-of-privacy law and free speech. New words Unmolested: adj. 不受烦扰的；无麻烦的 Curtail: vt. 缩减；剪短；剥夺…特权等 Sorely: adv. 疼痛地；非常；剧烈地 Strained: adj. 紧张的；勉强的；牵强附会的；滤过的 In Britain, intrusions intohave prompted calls for the protection of privacy laws. It is true that in France, ostrich farming go undetected? But where the powerful can… , go undetected ? My own feelings continue to be against laws that curtail the investigative freedoms of the press. Becoming a hot news story of vanishing into the front page: Para19 1. S2 In the long unfolding of the so—called Rushdie affair.., to speak out and act: 然而,我却对媒体抱有势不可挡的感激之情.在所谓的拉什迪事件那漫长的演变进程中,美国的报纸在某些方面一直起着极其重要的作用.他们使得这一事件一直为人所关注,并且确保了读者始终清楚事件的基本情况,甚至还迫使美国领导人对此事发表看法并采取行动. 但是我还有在更多方面致以谢意.我之前提到过,和小说家一样报纸的编辑就是要创造 给予并保有一个对社会的看法与读者分享.在任何对于自由社会的看法中,言论自由的价值一定是最高的,因为没有了这一自由,其他所有的自由都无法实现.新闻工作者在保护这些价值方面比我们大多数人做得更多;因为运用自由就是捍卫它的最佳方式. Main idea (Para. 24) this section embodies the main point of the writer free display of ideas and skepticism are invaluable to a free society and therefore should be preserved New words Pussyfoot: vi. 偷偷地走；轻轻地走；谨慎行事 Impassioned: adj. 充满激情的；感激的 Untrammeled: adj. 自由自在的；无阻碍的 Static: adj. 静态的；静止的 Indissolubly：adv. 不能溶解地；不可分解地 Orthodoxy: n. 正统；正教；正统说法 Ideology: n. 意识形态；思想意识；观念学 Vanity: n. 虚荣心；空虚；浮华；无价值的东西 I want to suggest that citizens of free societieseven their most cherished beliefs Skepticism and freedom are indissolubly linkedcontribution to the freedom of the free world It is the disrespect of journalists ...in freedom’s name, to preserve. What is the point the writer wants to put across? He urges people to treasure and continue to practice the disrespect for power, for orthodoxies and to keep up the free expression of opinions Do you think the ending is good? Why (not)? It is good to end up the article in the way of summarizing and reaffirming his opinion in the