解放军文职招聘考试The Media

 The Media

How do you learn about topical events? Where can you find out about things which are happening ev­ery day all over the world? You can read newspapers, listen to the radio or watch television. These three methods of communication bring daily news to millions of people everywhere. They are known as the mass media.

The main job of a newspaper is to inform us about what is going on in the world. Newspapers are probably the least entertaining of the media, but they are the most informative. The news is gathered by reporters. The editor of a newspaper decides which items of news to publish and which page they will appear on. It is his job to make sure that the piece is not too long, that the story is interesting and that people will be able to un­derstand it when they read it.

TV and radio stations also have reporters. They interview people and their interviews are filmed. The news editor decides which pieces of film to use in the television news every evening. Radio interviews are tape-recorded. An important source of world news for the broadcasting media is news agencies. There are several worldwide news agencies which employ corre­spondents in different places all over the world to make reports. These reports are gathered at the agencies’ headquarters and then sent overseas by teleprinters. One of the most important jobs of the news editors at the radio and TV stations is re-writing these reports, for they are originally written for people to read in newspapers and magazines. Written language is often much more formal than spoken language, therefore they have to be re-written so that they sound natural when the news reader reads them over the air