Watch the video CNN: The Newspaper Industry in Decline, answer the questions (vocabulary notes will help you)
Vocabulary notes
To pull the plug – прекратить существование, «перекрыть кислород»
To bleed red ink – быть убыточным, влезть в долги
Financial bail-out – финансовая помощь (например, от правительства)
To hollow out – опустошать
To scrabble – рыться в поисках чего-либо
Hard-scrabbled – информация, добытая тяжелым трудом
Questions
1. What’s happening to US newspapers? What are people doing?
2. What legislation was proposed concerning NPs?
3. What does Leonard Pitts say about how people “of a certain age” feel about NPs? What does he mean by that?
4. Why do we need NPs and reporters according to David Sirota? What will happen if it goes away? How do you understand “investigative journalism”?
5. What are the strengths of local NPs? What do they do that CNN won’t do?
6. What does David Sirota think about “citizen journalism”? How do you understand the term?
7. What should NPs do to survive?
8. What is the misconception about NPs according to Leonard Pitts? What’s the problem here?
