CAMBRIDGE
ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE ADVANCED
UNIT 50
The news: gathering and delivering
A
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Gathering the news
1
newspapers and magazines
2
radio and TV
3
news websites
4
people trying to influence what other people think about a particular issue
5
express their opinions
6
meetings to give information to and answer questions from the press
7
give a formal announcement to the press
8
wanting to reach a wider audience
9
short memorable sentence or phrase that will be repeated in news bulletins
and articles
10 look for
11 making use of people or organisations which regularly
provide news
12 regularly checking
13 minutes given to it on radio or TV
14 space
15 media attention
16 an informal and sometimes disapproving word for press
photographers
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B
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Delivering
the news
A
rag is an informal word for a newspaper and it suggests that it is not
of very high quality. The gutter press is a disapproving term used
about the kind of newspapers and magazines that are more interested in crime
and sex than serious news.
Journalists
produce copy, which has to be ready for a deadline. With
printed newspapers, when everything is ready, the newspaper goes to press.
Previous
issues of a paper are known as back copies. These are usually
accessible in an online archive.
A
story that is only to be found in one newspaper is an exclusive or scoop.
All newspapers or TV news channels hope to run a story that no one
else has discovered. A major story can be said to hit the headlines
on the day it is published. At that time, the story breaks or
becomes public knowledge.
A
newspaper may be taken to court for libel or defamation of
character if it publishes an untrue story that, for example, wrongly accuses
someone of something.
Journalists
of different political persuasions will put their own gloss/spin on
a story. [present it in their own way]
Some
journalists gather stories by muck-raking. [collecting scandal]
Generally,
newspapers like to make stories sound more dramatic by using words like heroic
and triumph, even for some occurrence that is quite
ordinary. [happening, event]
Language
help
Media
is a plural noun and should be used
with a plural verb, e.g. The media are blamed for a number of
social problems. However, some people treat it as if it were a singular
word, e.g. Social media has had a huge impact on our lives.
Media is often used as an adjective in phrases like media reports/ coverage/attention/interest/hype.
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EXERCISES
50.1
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Match
the two parts of the collocations from the opposite page.
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50.2
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Fill
the gaps with words from the opposite page.
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50.3
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Answer
these questions about the words and expressions in B opposite.
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50.4
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Rewrite
these sentences so that they mean the same thing, using the word in brackets.
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50.5
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Choose
the best word to complete each sentence.
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ANSWER KEY
50.1
1 h 2 g 3 e 4 b 5 a 6 d 7 c 8 f
50.2
1 copy
2 deadlines
3 went
4 breaks
5 archive
6 paparazzi
50.3
1 No, because rag is too informal a
word for this context and also it implies that you think the newspaper is not
of good quality.
2 You have a low opinion of them.
3 Deadlines.
4 ‘Exclusive’ and ‘scoop’.
5 The story breaks and the story hits
the headlines.
6 Libel and defamation of character:
these both involve saying things that lower a person’s reputation.
(Defamation is broader than libel in that it covers slander as well as libel.
Slander is spoken defamation of character and libel is written defamation of
character.)
50.4
1 Every news report inevitably puts
its own spin on events.
2 I have to find some articles from some back copies of The Times. 3 The TV news yesterday ran a story about my favourite singer. 4 The floods took up more column inches in the papers than any other story this week. 5 Politicians are always ready and willing to air their views to/in the press. 6 The story about the scandal surrounding her uncle hit the headlines on her wedding day. 7 Any newspaper does all it can to prevent being sued for defamation of character. 8 Muck-raking is a characteristic activity of the gutter press.
50.5
1 conference 5 airtime
2 broke 6 Social 3 publicity 7 hero 4 media 8 occurrence |
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