16812 谢振礼 雅思写作范文：印刷报业前途堪忧
IELTS Writing Task 2
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谢振礼 雅思范文
印刷的报纸销路大减，导致业者入不敷出。多数人怪罪于免费网页新闻的崛起，如此这般，报纸的前途堪忧。
这一篇文章讨论你是不是同意说报纸将继续成为新闻消费的主流。当然最好是回答说不同意，因为这种立场比较接近当今的事实：奄奄一息的新闻报纸显然不敌免费新闻网页。
写论说文的结构技巧是平衡论证，这样比较有话说。报纸没有前途，但是也死不了。
>Essay Topic:
Although more and more people read news on the Internet, newspapers will remain the most important source of news. Do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
>Example Essay: (by 谢振礼 Jeenn Lee Hsieh)
Newspapers will continue to be an important source of people's news consumption, even though print has been largely replaced by online news along with television and radio. This being increasingly obvious, many have predicted that it is a matter of time for print circulations to vanish. Will newspapers die or survive?
On the one hand, in this digital age, it seems highly unrealistic, even ridiculous, to agree that newspapers will remain the most important source of news. No money, no talks-- many think that the waning print circulation will not have an economic future anymore. So overwhelming has become the dominance of the web pages regarding news consumption that many newspapers have been forced to shift their operations online, trying to struggle with survival. In this way, they publish around the clock rather than daily in order to keep pace with the Internet society, only to find that it is nearly in vain to have a profit. As a result, their revenue has dramatically fallen due to having failed to attract advertisers. Just consider that about one-third of newspaper income comes from sales and the majority comes from advertising, but this is no longer the case that used to be. It was then when newspapers sold print news to readers and in turn they sold readers to advertisers; and it is now when access to news information is free online.
On the other hand, other people are less sure about the eventual demise of print newspapers. Analogically speaking, there may be hopes that print newspapers will continue to exist for a good while as a relevant source for news consumption, despite many predictions to the contrary. At this point, some of these predictions about the Internet killing off newspapers deserve to be analyzed with historical references to television news and radio news broadcasts which have greatly affected sales of newspapers but which have never been able to put print to death. For instance, when the first radio crackled on the airwaves, many predicted the decline of newspapers; and again, when television came along, even more people felt the tube represented the nail in print journalism's coffin. Now the prophets of the digital media age are wrongly doing much the same thing. In view of this, could those prognosticators be liars or fools in announcing the early death of print newspapers simply because of the popularity of reading news on the Internet?
In conclusion, whether print newspapers will die or survive in the time to come depends on whom you ask. It is generally believed that traditional print will not be the most important source of news, now that the mainstream consumers prefer reading news on the Internet as well as watching television or listening to radio. That being said, newspapers are not dead--not yet. (Jeenn Lee Hsieh 谢振礼 批改作文ielts360toefl@163.com)
