新东方在线雅思为同学们整理了雅思大作文范文之网上获取国际新闻的利弊，供考生参考学习。

大作文写作真题：

More and more people no longer read newspaper or watch TV programmes to get news. They get news about the world through the Internet. Is this a positive or negative development?

高分范文

It is now very common to see people, especially youngsters, get themselves well-informed about global news through the internet. Personally, I deem this commonplace irresistible and quite advantageous.

Admittedly, traditional forms, newspapers and television programmes, do have their edges. To illustrate, compared with news shown on the internet, which may be fabricated, the stories reported on newspapers and television programmes are rather authentic, since the strict censorship requires editors and reporters to be certain about minute details. However, netizens sometimes are largely likely to be misled by some idle gossips, and even worse, accelerate the speed of spreading such fake news via modern platforms. However, this can in effect be prevented as long as either the news published online is strictly censored and regulated or readers foster the ability to seek authoritative sources and to distinguish the information they have acquired.

As a matter of fact, behind obtaining international news through internet are more gains. For one thing, such mode provides the public with easier access to both the news having just popped up and the one having occurred several decades ago. Taking full advantage of news events’ travelling fast on the internet, netizens can get informed within a few hours or even minutes rather than wait at least half a day until newspapers are printed or programmes are shot. Meanwhile, it is via the internet, an easily-accessible repository of a vast amount of digital information, that netizens can dig the previous events simply by clicking the mouse instead of scanning piles of newspapers. Moreover, the progresses of electronic devices have made it possible to search news via portable palm-sized gadgets, bringing much more convenience.

In a nutshell, the downsides of getting international news online pale into insignificance when set against its upsides.