Put the correct words from a–d
below in the text. Watch the video and check your answers
We, as a country, we are incredibly
good at exporting our ideology. We teach other countries to do what we do. And
the fact that matters is that the models for calling up journalists are playing
out in countries around the (1) ___, but have not played out to such an extend
in Australia.
But I want to emphasize – they will. If you don’t believe that you are living
in a fantasy world, because someday a (2) ___ is going to show up and say: “You
know, we could do this”. That’s what happens with the journalists. If they have,
and I know that in some cases they have, already have, but I want to emphasize
why I think it matters so much. And that is if we’re just talking about (3)
____ losing their jobs, right? It’s sad! I’m a journalist, my friends are
journalists. I don’t want us to lose jobs. But that’s not really what we’re
talking about here, you know. That’s sad, journalists losing jobs. Media
changing, that’s tough, that’s difficult, you know, that’s happening.
Those are
business page stories. The (4) ____ story, the real news for society, is what
this does to (5) ___. And this is not an American phenomenon, it’s not, you
know, the developed world phenomenon. Journalism is intricately linked to
democracy in every place in the world. There is nowhere, where journalism is
not the (6) ___ of democracy. Journalism may be practiced in many different
ways: online; in print, (7) ___, it may be still an oral tradition. Journalism
was rooted in the oral tradition. But the bottom line is, when someone gets
information that power doesn’t want and communicates to the powerless, they are
committing the act of journalism. And when we dramatically decrease the number
of people who do that act in a country, we dramatically decrease the ability of
citizens to get the information they need.
Thomas Jefferson, our third (8) ____,
author of our Bill of Rights, the author of our Declaration of (9)____ said it
best. It’s a wonderful quote that’s above the door of every newspaper in America,
it says: “Given the choice between having government without newspapers or
newspapers without (10)____, I would always choose the latter”. I will always
choose the newspapers because you can’t have a democracy, you can’t have a free
(11)___without the newspaper. Now you think from that quote that Jefferson loved newspapers. He hated them, he despised
them. He said after he left the White House that if he never read another
newspaper for the rest of his life he would be a happy man.
So why
would he say we have to have them? What is it? Cause if you read the rest of
the letter saying “given a choice between government and newspapers” he issued
his friend named Edward Carrington, he says: “because that the only thing that
will separate us from the (12)____ of old Europe is a free press, is journalism!”
Because in the monarchies of old Europe
(13)___and viscounts, and Kaisers, and Czars could control all information. And
in that control of the information they assured that “the wolves would always
devour the sheep”. And Jefferson being very
literal said: “Let me explain that to you, Edward Carrington, what I mean when
I say that the wolves will devour the sheep. I’m not talking about animals! I’m
saying “the (14)____will control the poor”. There will be a class divide, Jefferson explained, in every country in the world. And
that divide will be dramatically reinforced to an extend that there would be no
real (15)____ without journalism.
1.
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(a)
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worldly
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(b)
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world
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(c)
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universe
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(d)
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countries
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2.
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(a)
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manager
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(b)
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managing
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(c)
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manage
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(d)
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management
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3.
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(a)
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journal
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(b)
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journalists
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(c)
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journalism
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(d)
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journalist
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4.
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(a)
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front page
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(b)
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glossy page
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(c)
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first page
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(d)
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editor’s page
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5.
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(a)
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democrat
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(b)
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democratic party
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(c)
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democratic
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(d)
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democracy
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6.
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(a)
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basing
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(b)
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underpinning
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(c)
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founding
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(d)
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support
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7.
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(a)
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broadcast
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(b)
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broadcasting
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(c)
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broad
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(d)
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news
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8.
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(a)
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philosopher
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(b)
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politics
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(c)
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President
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(d)
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Prime Minister
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9.
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(a)
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sovereignty
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(b)
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freedom
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(c)
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independent
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(d)
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Independence
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10.
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(a)
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government
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(b)
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governing
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(c)
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governed
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(d)
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govern
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11.
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(a)
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social
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(b)
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society
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(c)
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national
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(d)
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international
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12.
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(a)
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monarchies
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(b)
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monarch
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(c)
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dictator
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(d)
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lords
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13.
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(a)
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country
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(b)
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state
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(c)
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kingdom
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(d)
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kings
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14.
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(a)
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noble
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(b)
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power
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(c)
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rich
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(d)
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influence
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15.
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(a)
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countries
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(b)
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sovereign
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(c)
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independent
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(d)
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democracy
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1
Give Ukrainian equivalents for the following words and expressions.
Intricately, underpinning, latter,
viscount, literal, to emphasize, phenomenon.
2 Comprehension questions.
1. Who is John Nichols?
2. In
what ways can journalism be practised?
3. Who Thomas Jefferson was?
4. What is the real meaning of
a quote “The wolves would always devour the sheep”?
5. Who controlled the
information in old Europe?
3 Say if the
following statements are true according to the text.
1. Journalism may be practised
in many different ways: online, broadcast, in print, orally.
2. Thomas Jefferson is the
second president of the USA.
3. Jefferson
preferred newspapers to the government.
4. Jefferson
loved newspapers.
5. John Nichols is a
journalist.
6. In a
monarchy kings control all the information.
7. “The wolves will devour the
sheep” means “The rich will control the poor”.
8. When Jefferson said:” The
wolves will devour the sheep” he was talking about animals.
9. The only thing that
separates us from the monarchy is journalism, free press.
10. If Jefferson
read another newspaper for the rest of his life he would be a happy man.
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