VOA慢速英语 网络是在拯救, 还是在扼杀报纸?

　　网络是在拯救，还是在扼杀报纸？

　　VOICE ONE:

　　Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.

　　VOICE TWO:

　　And I'm Steve Ember. This week on our program, we talk about the newspaper industry in the United States and its history.

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　　VOICE ONE:

　　The new movie "State of Play" is a political murder mystery. Ben Affleck plays a congressman whose assistant -- and lover -- is killed. Russell Crowe investigates her murder. Does he play a Washington police officer, a federal agent, a private investigator?

　　No, a newspaper reporter -- a reminder, in this age of new media and social media, not to forget the importance of the old media.

　　VOICE TWO:

　　American newspapers are reporting what some fear is the slow death of their own industry.

　　Newspapers in the United States earn most of their money from selling space for advertising. The rates they charge are tied to the number of readers. But the number of people who buy newspapers has been falling for years. And this traditional business model has not worked very well on the Internet, especially not in a bad economy.

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