One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

  • -- Rowan D. Williams 罗文·D·威廉姆斯

当然,媒体能为有争议的行为提供的最有力的辩护之一就是公众利益。

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I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

我去了学院,和当时的大人物斯塔克一起学习。但我不感兴趣。我不知道在我之前还有康定斯基和克利,他们也和斯卡迪一起学习过。他那时名声很好。

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

这暗示了媒体和战争的一些东西:不仅仅是事件发生,媒体记录并呈现它们。还有第三个要素:公众愿意接受什么,公众想知道什么。

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

新闻媒体在很大程度上是坏消息的制造者。这也不完全是媒体的错,坏消息获得更高的收视率,比好消息卖出更多的报纸。

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

什么是公共历史?它不过是那些参与权力争夺者的成功与失望、罪恶、愚蠢和争吵的记录。

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

我看到人们对诗歌的兴趣又复活了。在联邦资助方面,我对艺术的前景不那么乐观。

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

思想的力量比肌肉的力量更强大。

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

我从来没有感到来自公众的任何愤怒。