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英语演讲：TelevisionNewsCoverage
Spiro Theodore Agnew: Television News Coverage I think it's obvious from the cameras here that I didn't come to discuss the ban on cyclamates or DDT。 I have a subject which I think if of great importance to the American people。 Tonight I want to discuss the importance of the television news medium to the American people。 No nation depends more on the intelligent judgment of its citizens。 No medium has a more profound influence over public opinion。 Nowhere in our system are there fewer checks on vast power。 So， nowhere should there be more conscientious responsibility exercised than by the news media。 The question is， \we demanding enough of our television news presentations?\demanding enough of themselves?\
Monday night a week ago， President Nixon delivered the most important address of his Administration， one of the most important of our decade。 His subject was Vietnam。 My hope， as his at that time， was to rally the American people to see the conflict through to a lasting and just peace in the Pacific。 For 32 minutes，
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he reasoned with a nation that has suffered almost a third of a million casualties in the longest war in its history。
When the President completed his address -- an address， incidentally， that he spent weeks in the preparation of -- his words and policies were subjected to instant analysis and querulous criticism。 The audience of 70 million Americans gathered to hear the President of the United States was inherited by a small band of network commentators and self-appointed analysts， the majority of whom expressed in one way or another their hostility to what he had to say。 It was obvious that their minds were made up in advance。 Those who recall the fumbling and groping that followed President Johnson’s dramatic disclosure of his intention not to seek another term have seen these men in a genuine state of nonpreparedness。 This was not it。
One commentator twice contradicted the President’s statement about the exchange of correspondence with Ho Chi Minh。 Another challenged the President’s abilities as a politician。 A third asserted that the
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英语演讲：TelevisionNewsCoverage
