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当今世界,如果在地球的另一端有一位总统被暗杀,或是一场足球赛结束了,你马上就能从收音机中听到有关的消息,甚至可以从电视机上看到现场的情景。不管怎样,你一定能从第二天的报纸上读到它。新闻事业在我们的日常生活中起着非常重要的作用。如果没有新闻消息,人们就会感到焦虑和不安。新闻对于我们就象食物一样是必不可少的。可以想象,1815年等待着滑铁卢战役的消息的人们是多么心切啊!战胜拿破仑这一伟大胜利的消息是用最快的马利最快的帆船传送的。当消息到达伦敦时,伦敦人对二百五十英里路程只用了四天时间而感到惊异。而拿破仑于1821年死在遥远的圣赫勒拿岛上的消息整整花了两个月的时间才传到伦敦。然而这并不使人感到奇怪。因为在那个时候,人们对发生在自己周围的事情比发生在广大外界社会的事件更感兴趣,甚至没有什么人去费事买报纸。到了十九世纪三十年代时,发明了电报。当电报线
In today’s world, if a president is assassinated on the other side of the globe or a soccer game is over, you can hear the news right away on the radio, and you can even see the scene on the television. Anyway, you can read it from the next day’s newspaper. Journalism plays a very important role in our daily life. Without news, people feel anxious and restless. News is just as essential to us as food. Imagine the eagerness of those who awaited the news of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The news of the great victory over Napoleon was delivered by the quickest sailboat Marly. When the news arrived in London, Londoners were amazed by the two hundred and fifty miles in just four days. It took Napoleon to die in the distant island of St. Helena in 1821 for about two months before reaching London. However, this is not surprising. Because at that time, people were more interested in what happened to themselves than events that occurred in the vast outer world, and there was not even a lot of people who took the trouble to buy newspapers. By the nineteen thirties, the telegraph was invented. When telegraph line