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Because one of the roles of media in a civil society is to highlight wrongs that can be righted,
因?yàn)樵诠裆鐣?huì)，媒體的職能之一是把應(yīng)該糾正的錯(cuò)誤行為公諸于世
to inspire people, to act, to change, to make the world a better place.
鼓勵(lì)人們，去行動(dòng)，去改變，讓世界變得更美好
However, we need to realize that the media doesn't just report reality as it is.
但是我們要認(rèn)識(shí)到媒體報(bào)道時(shí)并不是就事論事
It highlights certain aspects of reality.
而是單獨(dú)強(qiáng)調(diào)事件中的某幾個(gè)方面
And there is a media bias involved.
所以就會(huì)涉及媒體偏見(jiàn)了
Now the media bias is not, you know, left-leaning CNN or Reuters versus right-leaning Fox and Wall Street Journal.
媒體偏見(jiàn)并不是說(shuō)，左傾的CNN和路透社對(duì)右傾的?？怂购腿A爾街有偏見(jiàn)
That's not the bias I am talking about.
這不是我所說(shuō)的媒體偏見(jiàn)
I am talking about bias toward the negative.
我說(shuō)的偏見(jiàn)是一種傾向于負(fù)面的偏見(jiàn)
The media focuses, highlights the negative.
媒體關(guān)注突出的是負(fù)面
It acts as a magnifying glass rather than as a looking glass.
它就像一面放大鏡，而不是眼鏡
And we need to keep that in mind, and to correct for that.
我們需要記住這點(diǎn)，并對(duì)此加以糾正
The media dosen't just reflect reality as it is. Reality is not the frontpage of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.
媒體報(bào)道時(shí)沒(méi)有就事論事。紐約時(shí)報(bào)頭版上的不是全面的事實(shí)，華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)上的頭版不是全面的事實(shí)
That's not reality. That's highlighting a specific area of reality and magnifying it.
它們只是突出事件中的某個(gè)方面，加以放大
It accentuates the negative, focuses on the negative — the war in, with Turkey, or, the blood spilled in Kosovo, or the mom leaving her child. The hatred.
它強(qiáng)調(diào)負(fù)面，關(guān)注負(fù)面——土耳其發(fā)動(dòng)的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，科索沃的流血事件或者說(shuō)母親棄兒，仇恨事件
And what it does, when it does that, is also underrepresent the positive.
媒體這樣做會(huì)造成正面新聞得不到足夠關(guān)注
Now if you think about it, this is exactly two of the three mental distortions that we talked about.
大家想想，這兩種做法正是我們之前講過(guò)的三種心理扭曲中的兩種
