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Newspapers came in second : Forty –two percent said if they could only have one , they would keep television. Thirty –two per cent said if they could only have one , they would keep newspapers .

结果报纸占第二位：42％的人说，如果只能要一种，他们将保留电视；32％的人说如果只能要一种，他们将保留报纸。 Even so , newspaper people should be much happier than the magazine people , because only four per cent said they needed magazines , as against nineteen per cent for radio .

即便如此，报界人士应比办杂志的人高兴得多了，因为说需要杂志的人只有4％，而要广播的人达到了19％。

But listen to this . Mr. Roper asked these same harried (拉住的)people :‖ If you get conflicting or different reports of the same new story from radio , television , the magazines , and the newspapers , which of the four versions would you be most inclined to believe ?‖

但听听下面这个吧。罗帕又问了同一组被拉住做调查的人这个问题：如果你

发现广播、电视、杂志和报纸对同一新闻事件的报导有争议或有出入时，你更倾

向于相信四种说法中的哪一种呢？

― Thirty –two per cent believe newspapers as against thirty per cent who believe television .

32％的人相信报纸，而30％的人相信电视。

But then something really strange happens . When Mr. Roper asked his guinea pigs which of these media they would be least inclined to believe , the newspapers topped the list .

但接着就出现了十分奇怪的情况。当罗帕先生问这些被调查的人在这些媒体中他们最不相信哪一个时，报纸居首位。 In a big way , too . Twenty –four per cent don‘t believe newspapers as against nine per cent who don‘t believe television .

差距也很大。24％的人不相信报纸，而 9％的不相信电视。

The fact is that although network television still allots分配 too little time to the vital service of informing the public , 事实的，尽管电视节目在为人众提供信息方面，安排的时间很少，

it does a better job in that little time than the nation‘s press as a whole .

但总的来 说就在这有限的时间内，它在全国新闻界中做得是最出色的。

And when I speak of the nation‘s press as a whole , I am not speaking of the five or six splendid newspapers ----and the one great newspaper -----which serve the world as models of responsible public information .

这里我提到的全国新闻界，不包括那五、六家尊贵的报社——其中一家重要的报社——一被当作是 全世界提供可靠消息的楷模。

I am speaking of the local press which in hundreds of American communities is the only news available , aside from those recitals(復述) of ticker tape電訊稿 that pass for radio news .

我指的是那些当地报纸。在美国的几百个社区中，除了那些把电讯稿复述一遍充当新闻广播之外，大众惟一能得到的新闻就来自这 些报纸了，而它们并没有履行对大众的义务。

Why do I think network Tv does a better job of informing than these papers ?

为什么我认为电视网在提供新闻方面比这些报纸做得好些呢？

Well , let‘s get the partisan bit(黨派性) over with .

让我们先把报纸的党派性这一点说清楚。

Television lives on advertising to an even greater extent than newspapers , and since advertising is big business , advertising is by nature Republican (親共和黨).

电视比报纸依靠广告的程度甚至还要大，既然广告是笔大生意，广告从本质上就是亲共和党的。

yet nowhere in network newscasts 網絡新聞or network commentaries 網絡實事中on current events have I encountered the intense partisanship , the often rabid bias that colors the editorial pages of the majority of newspapers in this country .

然而无论在电视网的新闻节目中还是时事评论中，我都未遇到这个国家大多数报纸的社论版上所反映出的那强烈的党派性甚至常常是狂热无理的偏见。