综合英语Book V Unit 9.pptVIP

TEXT ⅠWhere Is the News Leading Us  TEXT ⅡShould the Press Be Human?  Norman Cousins Katharine Whitehorn Pre-class assignments The two texts in this unit are arguments on the obligations of the media. Here are some questions for you: 1. What do you know about “the media”? 2. What’s your views on the obligations of the media? 3. What do you think are the views of the two authors on this issue? 4. What do you think are the responsibilities of a journalist? Many historical events and cultural points are involved in this unit, so a lot of library work is required of you. Apart from finishing the Library Work in Text Ⅰ, Please read through every note of each text carefully and complete Exc. Ⅳ (p.105) in your WORKBOOK. Enumerate some world-famous English newspapers and magazines with which you are familiar. Acronyms and Abbreviations OPEC ASEAN NATO UNESCO NASA AIDS UNEP GATT YMCA, IOC, EU FBI, CIA, EEC WTO, WHO, IMF CPC, CPPCC NPC, CAAC BBC, VOA, CNN UNPKF, UNDP UNSC, UNGA English newspapers magazines Daily Express Daily Mirror Daily Telegraph Financial Times Guardian Observer Spectator Sunday Observer Times Tribune American Review American Journal of Science Chicago Daily Tribune International Herald Tribune New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post Time, Playboy, Life English newspapers magazines Asia Week Asia Wall Street Journal Far Eastern Economic Review South China Morning Post Star China News China Post Beijing Weekend Beijing Review China Daily China Daily Business Weekly China Today Shanghai Star Shanghai Students’ Post 21st Century Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974) American newspaper columnist, editor, and author, regarded as the dean of American political journalists, educated at Harvard University, won two Pulitzer Prizes in 1958 and 1962, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. Quotations from Lippmann In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who con