Issue 15
Unfortunately, the media tend to highlight what is sensational at the moment. Society would be better served if the media reported or focused more fully on events and trends that will ultimately have the most long- term significance.
The speaker asserts that rather than merely highlighting certain sensational events the media should provide complete coverage of more important events. While the speakers assertion has merit from a normative standpoint, in the final analysis I find this assertion indefensible.
作者運用了讓步的手法，先是分析原作為何出此觀點的原因，然後再駁斥，提出自己的正確觀點。我們要特別留意第一句的架構，雖然過分複雜，但是好像ets就是喜歡這種變態句子。
However, for several reasons I find the medias current trend toward highlights and the sensational to be justifiable. First, the world is becoming an increasingly eventful place; thus with each passing year it becomes a more onerous task for the media to attempt full news coverage. Second, we are becoming an increasingly busy society. The average U.S. worker spends nearly 60 hours per week at work now; and in most families both spouses work.
作者從現實需要和事實證明兩方面來駁斥原文觀點，這一手法不妨借鑑。必須補充的是，作者運用的First,second這樣的分層次分析使得結構鮮明，表意清晰也是值得學習的。
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