最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit3-Part3

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[00:00.00]Both the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers 

[00:03.82]started to include sensational¹ stories 

[00:06.56]about the Cuban Insurrection. 

[00:09.08]The stories greatly exaggerated claims 

[00:13.56]of Spanish troops placing Cubans 

[00:16.08]in concentration camps, 

[00:18.05]forcing them to live 

[00:20.34]under substandard conditions, 

[00:22.09]diseaseridden, starving and dying. 

[00:25.16]This style of reporting 

[00:28.11]became known as “Yellow Journalism”. 

[00:29.75]The newspapers were transformed 

[00:33.58]as the scope of the news broadened

[00:35.88]and became less conservative.

[00:38.72] Circulation soared as the public could 

[00:42.00]get enough of the banner headlines 

[00:44.41]and abundant illustrations. 

[00:45.95]At the time, many people 

[00:49.45]believed William actually might 

[00:51.20]have initiated² the SpanishAmerican War 

[00:54.58]to encourage sales. 

[00:56.99]According to one report, 

[00:59.62]when one of his correspondents, 

[01:01.81]Frederick Remington,

[01:03.88] requested to return from Havana, 

[01:06.08]William responded 

[01:07.83]that if Remington would 

[01:09.47]furnish the pictures, William 

[01:11.00]would furnish the war. 

[01:13.29]He was once quoted in an editorial

[01:15.60] as saying, “Make the news 

[01:18.87]thorough Print all the news. 

[01:21.17]Condense it if necessary.

[01:24.23]Frequently it is better 

[01:25.99]when intelligently condensed.”

[01:28.72]Another classic example of his influence 

[01:31.79]occurred when, merely months 

[01:34.30]after he advocated political assassination³

[01:37.37] in an editorial,

[01:39.22] American President McKinley was assassinated⁴.