Some people think that the detailed criminal description on newspapers and TV programs has bad consequence,so this kind of information should be restricted on media. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

应该限制报纸和电视节目对犯罪进行细节描写吗？

审题与解析

上周雅思作文要求大家讨论的是应该发展本国影视还是引进外国影视，老雅在分析这个题目的时候，列举了近几年雅思考试中关于“影视”的题目，其中两个题目如下：

Films and computer games containing violence are popular now. Some people think they have a negative effect on society and should be banned while other people think they are harmless entertainment. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.（2011/10/29）是否应该禁止暴力电影和电脑游戏？

The government should control the amount of violence in films and on television in order to decrease the level of violent crime in society. To what extent do you agree or disagree? （2017/5/20）为了降低犯罪率，政府应该控制暴力影视，你是否同意这个观点？(点击阅读老雅高分范文)

这两个题目都涉及是否应该禁止或控制媒体（影视、电脑游戏、报纸等）中的暴力因素。不难发现，这些题目都与本周题目高度相关。

题目中存在一个因果关系，即“媒体中的犯罪细节描写会产生不好的后果，因此应该限制”。对于这种有因果关系的题目，我们的思路不外乎可以有以下几种：

1.承认原因，也承认结果：描写会产生不好的后果，因此的确该限制

2.承认原因，但不承认结果：描写会产生不好的后果，但不该限制（限制会引起其他问题，而且还有其他更好的办法来解决不好的后果）

3.不承认原因，也不承认结果：描写不会产生什么不好的后果，因此限制是没有道理的。

关于此类题目的审题，大家可以阅读老雅的公众号文章，链接如下：

[老雅讲坛]因果关系类雅思作文，该怎么审题？

就本题而言，我们可以用一边倒的结构来展开论证：完全同意应该限制媒体对犯罪进行细节描写。理由有三：首先，从物质层面看，报纸或电视中的犯罪细节描写可能让人，尤其是年轻人，模仿伤害他人的方式；其次，从心理层面上，媒体中犯罪细节太多，容易让人产生这个世界不安全的感觉，从而影响其对世界的看法，并产生多种多样的社会后果。

但我们也可以用分类讨论的结构来展开论证：虽然媒体的犯罪细节描写会产生不好的后果，但是不能全部限制。那些纯粹为了刺激读者或观众的细节描写当然应该限制，但那些为了增加读者或观众知识的细节描写，那些为了实现影视正面美学效果的细节描写则不必限制。

本范文采用“分类讨论”的结构，这也是老雅个人更喜欢的论证结构。

高分范文

There seems to be more and more detailed criminal description on media these days, such as beating, murdering, gun fighting, blood shedding, among others. As I see it, the excessive exposure to these criminal scenes will negatively influence newspaper readers and TV viewers, thus increasing the likelihood of their committing the same crimes in real life, but to restrict them on media is quite another story. 

To follow others is human nature, especially when it comes to doing harms to other people. This is demonstrated by the genocide Nazis committed against Jews in the Second World War. So, the more criminal scenes people witness on media, the more likely they will do the same violence to other people. Even if they are made to believe that these criminal description isfictional (rather than real), the viewers may also cultivate a negative kind of attitude toward the world they live in. They may be led to a belief that the world is far from safe and so they can take every possible measure to protect themselves, including killing others. This is actually one of the important reasons why many felonies have been committed.

Nevertheless, to completely restrict media from giving detailed criminal description is not necessary nor desirable. Those description catering to the low taste of the audiences should, of course, be well controlled, but in many cases, it is important for newspapers or TV programs to offer detailed account of criminal acts, for either educational or aesthetic purposes. The detailed newspaper report, for instance, can arouse people's awareness of how bad a crime is so that they will take action against it; and in some TV programs, the vivid description of a criminal scene ispart and parcel of its total aesthetic design. 

To conclude, while we generally agree that media should not present too many detailed criminal scenes, those scenes for educational or aesthetic purposes should not be banned. 

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