Listen to the text “News in the age of information. Be your own investigative journalist.” Answer the questions. The vocabulary notes below may help you
armed with (adj) | equipped with, carrying. |
audience ratings (n) | the measure of the number of people who watch or listen to a programme on TV or radio. |
claim (n) | demand, asking for something that you think you have a right to. |
compile (v) | to put together. |
definitely (adv) | certainly, of course. |
eye-witness (n) | a person who sees something happening with their own eyes. |
fabricated (adj) | invented, untrue, made-up. |
news-gatherer (n) | a person or organisation that collects news information. |
scoop (n) | an exclusive story that only one journalist knows about. |
source (n) | the origin, the place where something comes from. |
subcontractors (n) | people who carry out part of a job for the person who sells the finished product. |
tycoon (n) | a successful business person who owns a number of different companies. |
web log (n) | a diary which is regularly published on the internet. Often shortened to “blog”. |
Questions
1. What is the idea of the information economy?
2. What is the problem with information as an organizing principle in society?
3. How do journalists get our news?
4. In what context is Scoop (Waugh’s satirical novel on the press) quoted?
5. Why do the military nowadays control the movements of journalists closely?
6. Why don’t people believe everything they read in the papers and what joke from scoop prove that they are right?
7. What does the new term infotainment imply?
8. Will the internet be able to become the source of information we exactly want?
9. What are the choices for those who are better informed?
