《观察家报》2006年6月11日文章：为什么西方媒体要掩盖实情Why Western newsrooms hide the truth
Sunday June 11, 2006
The Observer
By David Smith
European media are too scared to speak out about injustices in Africa because of political correctness, says filmmaker Sorious Samura.
Sorious Samura says he did it because he could. The television journalist's documentary, Living with Aids, broke ant_______①by scrutinising male sexualpromiscuity[1]as a cause of Africa's HIV epidemic, and last week earned him Broadcaster of the Year at the One World Media Awards in London. No white person, Samura says, would have dared.
'The things I said in Living with Aids about the African male's sexuality are things that no white journalist can say,' hemuses[2], relaxing over a drink at a pub in Clapham, south London. 'There are honest things that the Western media ought and need to say about Africa but political correctness has prevented them. That's the advantage that I have, because now I can say things that they can't because（1）they don't want to be labelled racist or have people saying: "Who the hell are they? It's neo-colonialism. They're coming to tell us what to do, where to go."'
In Living with Aids, broadcast last year, Samura confronted Zambian men who said they could see no point in wearing a condom once they had HIV. In an interview with The Observer at the time,（2）Samura described a culture of sexual recklessness internalised in childhoodandc______②his own experience growing up in Sierra Leone, where he became sexually active at the age of seven and had unprotected intercourse with multiple partners.
（3）He was braced for a fierce public backlash, but it never came.'The film has been seen all over Africa and you had close to a million people when it wasa______③here on Channel 4, but I got fewer than 10 serious emails or phone calls denying the reality, more from Westerners who were scared than Africans. In Zambia they backed the film and are now distributing it all over.__________________________.'（甚至连联合国都给予了支持。）
For Living with Aids Samura moved to Zambia to live with a family suffering from HIV and spent a month working in a hospital where more than half the patients had the virus. For Living with Illegals earlier this year, he joined a group of economic migrants smuggling themselves from Morocco into Spain and then on a cross-Channel lorry into Britain, making noe_______④for ruthless African people-smugglers.
（4）Why has Samura felt able to go further than his journalistic colleagues in this country in suggesting that Africans can be culpable rather than always the passive victims?The answer, his analysis implies, is a post-imperial guilt among a liberal whiteintelligentsia[3]who dominate newsrooms. He believes the Aids issue is just one symptom of a political correctness that hasstymied[4]our journalism.
'（5）I think the Western media have failed Africa,'he says. 'The media have got enormous power to help influence change, but they have been scared to say certain things that ought to have been said about Africa. That's what journalism's alla______⑤:poking[5]truth in the eye.
NOTES:
[1]promiscuity n.杂乱的性关系
[2]muse vt.谨慎地考虑或者说
[3]intelligentsia n.知识分子（总称）
[4]stymie vt.从中作梗；妨碍
[5]poke vt.戳穿，刺探
试一试：
1．根据首字母提示和译文，填入适当单词：①broke ant_______（打破了一个禁忌）
②c______his own experience growing up in Sierra Leone（以自己在塞拉利昂的成长经历为例说）
③when it wasa______here on Channel 4（此间电视4台播出这一片子时）
④making noe_______for ruthless people-smugglers（没有为无情的人口贩子做任何开脱）
⑤That's what journalism's alla______（那就是新闻的精髓）
参考答案：①taboo ②cited ③aired ④excuse ⑤about
2．翻译划线部分英文：
参考答案：
（1）他们不希望被打上种族主义的标签，或者被别人骂：“该死的他们到底是谁？这是新殖民主义。他们在告诉我们该怎么做，该向何处发展。”
（2）萨穆拉说，从孩提时他们就受到随便性行为习俗的耳濡目染。
（3）他本已经准备面对来自公众的强烈抨击，然而情况并非如此。
（4）为什么在这个国家，萨穆拉认为他可以指出非洲人也可以是罪犯而并不总是被动的受害者，而他的记者同行却不行呢？
（5）我认为西方媒体对非洲的报道是失败的。
3．根据译文，写出句子：
参考译文：Even the UN were behind it.
男性滥交导致艾滋病在非洲
2023-01-07英汉翻译
