The popularity of TV makes it the most effective channel of communication. Nowadays, it is common for a TV-broadcast NBA game to have billions of people sitting in front of that little screen cheering their favorite sports stars. This would have been unimaginable in the days of traditional media such as books, theaters and films. At that time,….
! ?% d4 G9 K* D: b( g$ Q3 F' {Politicians, for their special career, sometimes have to shun speaking out the truth. For the benefit of their party, nation or the public, political leaders occasionally are forced not to talk about a matter as it happens.
2 a6 Z5 D4 ~* @+ t; {2 z }Just like soldiers in the battlefield, political leaders are confronted with troublesome issues all the time. Any hasty or casual utterances may bring ruin upon themselves.# @8 h- A% S2 P, \
A good case in point is the “water-gate scandal”.
/ \8 D( J2 j4 q9 y) C- K8 ?However, we can never infer hereby that honesty is useless for a politician. It is known to all that we cannot equal “not to tell the truth” with “to lie,” because a person can still keep silent, or show partially the true color of the matter in question, or choose to tell the fact in a roundabout way rather than lie. Looking back on those gloomy days when SARS swept through most parts of China in 2003, the vast majority of Chinese still feel disappointed with the attitude of the former Minister of Public Health Bureau, who tried every means to conceal the truth…
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, r: Z1 N ?) G( P6 T! R+ SA really effective politician is one who can always say calmly that “yes, I am honest before my conscience,” but meanwhile skillfully utters “no” before a fact. |
发表于 2012-8-15 12:52:21
