利弊类大作文，媒体类话题
More and more people no longer read newspaper or watch TV programs to get news . They get news about the world through the internet. Is this a positive or negative development ?
题目来源：2022年2月19日大陆雅思大作文（重复21年4月3日大陆考题）
题目大意
越来越多人不再从报纸和电视获取新闻，而是从网络获取信息。请问利弊如何？
思路解析
这是一道利弊类大作文，讨论的媒体类话题不算难。要注意的是，这道题目中问的是positive or negative development —— 这个development指的是人们用网络替代报纸和电视这个现象，而非单纯的网络的技术特性，对比报纸电视的技术特性。因此，在写作的时候一定要紧扣住这一点。下面就带大家来分别看下利弊。
首先，我们来看积极的地方。
一是读者能够更快的知道一些突发或重要的信息。因为报纸制作、印刷等影响往往需要定时发布新闻，但网络不受这个影响可以随时发布。因此当有重大事件发生时，包括灾害、交通问题等，记者或其他人员可以快速发布消息并实时更新，而用户也能够第一时间知晓，并且持续对其进行关注，了解到新信息。
二是用户通过网络留言、讨论可以更积极参与到新闻事件中，增加事件的关注度甚至推动事件本身发展。而报纸电视只能让读者单方面的接收信息。
三是网络媒体相较于报纸更加环保，报纸本身印刷需要耗费大量纸张，并且对多数人来说缺乏保留价值，当天看完便丢了。网络媒体则避免了纸张、油墨的浪费以及后续回收的问题。
其次，我们再来看消极的地方。
一是网络平台容易出现虚假信息误导读者。报纸或电视媒体往往是由专业的新闻记者进行报道，并且有着更加规范、严谨的要求和审查，以此保证新闻内容的专业和准确。而网络的信息可以由任何人发布，发布者可能并没受过专业的训练，获取的信息本身也不全面，因此发布片面、主观甚至虚假的信息，进而误导读者，甚至虚假内容被大范围传播。
二是很多网络平台为了商业利益或吸引用户关注，会根据用户喜好、历史浏览记录等来给用户主动推送固定话题的内容或是没有价值的信息，进而导致了用户的思维受到了限制。
范文示例
There is an increasing trend that more and more people obtain information from the Internet rather than from TV or newspapers. While the benefits of the digital media are championed by the populace, I will say its potential pitfalls deserve equal attention as well.
From a positive perspective, one merit of people’s preference for the digital media can be seen from an eco-friendly consideration: the obsolescence of newspapers by their digital counterparts has saved millions of acres of forest over the past decades. Apart from the environmental blessing, not to be left behind is the closer relationship between online readers and the world. Compared with newspaper and TV audiences, who passively receive information without access to feedback, Internet users are allowed to post their comments in response to news articles; such an emerging trend facilitates the meaning of reading by giving individuals a sense of participation in what is happening in the world.
However, the aforementioned benefits are not justified enough to represent the entire picture – while focusing on the positive side of people’s bias for digital news, let’s not be oblivious to its repercussions for media credibility. Unlike newspapers and television, whose coverages are written and reviewed by professional correspondents, lots of threads on the Internet (e.g., Facebook, Twitter) are about gossip posted by anonymous users, which misleads the majority from the truth. Based on this, the discussion about the implications of the transformative reading faddism in the digital age can than move on to handle questions as to how to distinguish the truth from lie.
From what has been discussed, it is my conclusion therefore, while obtaining news online can be deemed as a blessing to some extent, its repercussion for the reliability of news deserves equal consideration.
相关词汇和语法结构
Champion 支持
Obsolescence 淘汰
Repercussion 负面影响
Thread 网络帖子
Gossip 小道消息
Anonymous 匿名的
Faddism 潮流
