VOA标准英语2010年-Media Watchdog Condemns Ugandan Paper
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(十)月
A Ugandan media watchdog is condemning 1 a local newspaper, which published a story that featured the names, photographs, and contact details of 100 alleged 2 homosexuals and called for them to be hanged.
The executive secretary of the country's Independent Media Council, Haruna Kanaah, says that he is shocked and dismayed by the newspaper's lack of journalistic ethics 3.
He says Uganda Rolling Stone, a weekly tabloid 4 launched by a group of journalism 5 graduates two months ago, is now being closely monitored.
"In Uganda, we have a journalism code of ethics, which is very clear," said Kanaah. "The media should be balanced, accurate and fair. Intruding 6 into people's privacy, that is not journalism. It is witch-hunting."?
Gay rights activists 8 in Uganda say at least four people have been attacked since the publication of the article earlier this month.
Carrying the headline "100 Pictures of Uganda's Top Homos," the article came out just days before the one year anniversary of the introduction of a controversial bill in parliament that would make homosexuality, which is illegal in Uganda, punishable by death in some cases.
Although debate over the bill has been suspended, rights group say homophobia in the East African country has risen dramatically in the past year.
Suspected homosexuals have been named in recent articles published by a rival tabloid newspaper, Red Pepper. But Ugandans say this is the first time that a media organization has deliberately 9 sought to incite 10 public violence against gays.
On its cover page, for example, the Uganda Rolling Stone also claimed that homosexuals in the country were raiding schools, aiming to recruit a million children by 2012.???
Many gay men and women are said to have gone into hiding or taking extreme precautions. One woman named in the article says she was forced to leave her home after neighbors began pelting 11 her house with rocks.
The managing editor of the Uganda Rolling Stone, Giles Muhame, has defended the newspaper's radical 12 anti-gay stance, saying that journalists had a duty to expose what he termed "evil in the Ugandan society." He says he intends to publish more names and photos in upcoming issues.
On Wednesday, a leading Ugandan activist 7 told an audience in Washington that gay people in Uganda are already living under a death sentence.? Julius Kaggwa, who was in Washington to receive an award for his work opposing intolerance against sexual minorities in Uganda, said gay men and women in his country are routinely denied health services and housing, and are being cut off from society.
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- I concur with the speaker in condemning what has been done. 我同意发言者对所做的事加以谴责。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
- The ethics of his profession don't permit him to do that.他的职业道德不允许他那样做。
- Personal ethics and professional ethics sometimes conflict.个人道德和职业道德有时会相互抵触。
- He launched into a verbal assault on tabloid journalism.他口头对小报新闻进行了抨击。
- He believes that the tabloid press has behaved disgracefully.他认为小报媒体的行为不太光彩。
- He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
- He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。
- Does he find his new celebrity intruding on his private life? 他是否感觉到他最近的成名侵扰了他的私生活？
- After a few hours of fierce fighting,we saw the intruding bandits off. 经过几小时的激烈战斗，我们赶走了入侵的匪徒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
- He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
- They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
- I wanted to point out he was a very good speaker, and could incite a crowd.我想说明他曾是一个非常出色的演讲家，非常会调动群众的情绪。
- Just a few words will incite him into action.他只需几句话一将，就会干。
- The rain came pelting down. 倾盆大雨劈头盖脸地浇了下来。
- Hailstones of abuse were pelting him. 阵阵辱骂冰雹般地向他袭来。