根据一项有关人们日常信息来源的调查(a questionnaire on "ways of obta

参考答案:
THE NEWSPAPER: A BETTER SOURCE OF NEWS
Over the past hundred years, newspapers have played an important role in our social, political, and economic life. But for most of us today, television has become our main source of news. According to a questionnaire on "ways of obtaining information," nearly GB per cent of the people watch TV, and only AB per cent read newspapers for their daily news. Perhaps the great disparity of ratio results from the easy access to television nowadays. This, however, puts us in a very disadvantageous position, for the newspaper is a better source of news in many ways.
Although television news excels in bringing into our living room dramatic events of singular importance: spacecraft launchings, natural disasters, record-breaking sports events, wars and so on, yet it cannot cover important stories in the depth they may deserve because of its time limit. Newspapers, however, can devote to a news item as much space as necessary and flesh it out with more details.
Furthermore, television by nature is a passive medium. It deprives viewers of the freedom of seiection. Whether you like or dislike a particular piece of news,’ you have to sit before the tube and watch it, following its pace passively. But by reading newspapers, you can select the most interesting news, and skip over what you think is boring or irrelevant. You can read some news in great detail or just run through it briefly. Also, watching TV
involves very little, if any, mental activity, and a constant diet of television journalism leads to the decline in general intellectual skills such as reading and writing. In contrast to this, the print media encourages active involvement in what is being reported. Readers have to make greater efforts than TV viewers to follow and absorb a news report.
When we consider television news versus newspaper news in terms of for mat, coverage and nature, is there any question as to which is a better source of news