Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? To truly understand any events happened in the world, we should draw our news from newspapers; television cannot provide enough information. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
你是否同意以下观点？为了真正了解世界正在发生的事情，我们应该从报纸上获取信息；电视所能提供的信息有限。请用具体的理由和事例来说明。
On any given day, an event may occur somewhere in the world that captures the attention of people far away. A recent case in point is the uprising in Egypt, in which thousands of its citizens demonstrated in Cairo's main square, protesting the reign of their long-time dictator and calling for his immediate resignation. While many people outside of Egypt may have first learned about this situation from radio or TV broadcasts,there is no doubt that anyone who truly wants to understand the causes of the uprising and its effects on the economy of Egypt will find much more useful information in the print media.
One reason why newspapers provide more information than TV programs is that they have the space to include many more articles and in-depth analyses. TV broadcasts are severely limited by time constraints: In a typical half-hour “Nightly News” program, for example, the news is presented in under 20 minutes （the other 10 minutes are commercials）， and many different stories must be presented, from the crisis in Egypt, to the weather, to sports news, to “feel good” bits （“Granny attacks bank robbers”）。 Thus,anyone wanting to know exactly what is going on in Egypt will get only the briefest overview on the televised news.
A newspaper, on the other hand, can offer in-depth coverage across many different viewpoints. The Egyptian situation may be updated on the first page （PROTESTORS REFUSE TO EVACUATE） and continued on the second page. Another article on page three might be a description of the lives of the ordinary people who are trying to cope with the crisis in their homeland （EGYPTIANS WORRIED ABOUT LOSS OF BUSINESS）。And still further, there might be an “opinion piece” on the editorial page, in which a columnist writes at some length about what he or she believes will be the negative effects of the Egyptian uprising on other countries.
It may certainly be the case that, in the near future, the newspaper printed on paper that you can hold in your hands will disappear, but the structure and content of the newspaper will surely continue in an electronic form, supplying readers with the same amount of background information and analyses as before. “A good newspaper,”playwright Arthur Miller said, “is a nation talking to itself.” We may need television news to alert us to what is going on, but we need newspapers to tell us WHY such things are happening.
