电视时代的读书已经不像以前那么重要了。人们通过看电视学到的和他们读书所能学到的一样多。

Disagree

1. Admittedly, television holds certain advantages over books for imparting certain types of knowledge.

2. However, the speaker overlooks several respects in which books are inherently superior to television as a medium for learning.

3. The speaker also ignores the decided tendency on the part of owners and managers of television media to filter information in order to appeal to the widest viewing audience, and thereby maximize profit.

4. Another compelling argument against the speaker’s claim has to do with how well books and television serve their respective archival functions.

现代技术之电视和读书

媒体和整个社会错误地希望某个人的发言就是代表了某一个特定的群体，无论这个个人是否代表了整个群体的意见。

There is high risk that the media and society may place unrealistically high expectation on an individual’s ability to represent a particular group.

1. The interviewees, usually chosen by chance to present through the media, cannot represent either the whole public of a particular group.

2. Even in a so-called democratic country, the representative chosen by a particular group on the basis of majority rule are not supposed to speak for the majority of the group.

3. It is necessary for society to remain sensitive to the limitations of representatives to represent the public.

少数和多数之发表意见