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<strong>Ryan</strong>: So what I've quickly discovered is that the media was this sort of hierarchy or chain. The bottom you have small blogs who have small readerships but correspondingly low threshold for what they will and will not publish. | <strong>Ryan</strong>: So what I've quickly discovered is that the media was this sort of hierarchy or chain. The bottom you have small blogs who have small readerships but correspondingly low threshold for what they will and will not publish. | ||
| − | <strong>Ryan</strong>: Say this blog publishes a rumor then Business Insider or The Huffington Post or Perez Hilton writes about it. And now, because of the stature of those sites, it becomes something that people are talking about on Twitter, on Facebook, on e-mail, they're chattering about it, and what happens is, producers for CNN, producers for a right wing talk radio, journalists for The New York Times | + | |
| + | <br/><br/><strong>Ryan</strong>: Say this blog publishes a rumor then Business Insider or The Huffington Post or Perez Hilton writes about it. And now, because of the stature of those sites, it becomes something that people are talking about on Twitter, on Facebook, on e-mail, they're chattering about it, and what happens is, producers for CNN, producers for a right wing talk radio, journalists for The New York Times | ||
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Conversation
Answer the following questions. You might be asked to write them down or answer them out-loud.
Vocabulary
Look at the vocabulary below. Take time to explore the links for their definitions in English and their translations to Portuguese. When you are done, make a sentence with each word. Ask your teacher if you should write them down or say them out loud.
Video
Watch the following video but DON'T read the transcript yet.
After watching the video do this listening exercise.
Reading practice
Read the following transcript then do the associated reading comprehension exercise.
So you're cruising around the Internet and you see a link to an article from some trusted news source, and it's got a really intruiguing title, so you read it. And later you find out that that whole article was mostly false. What you thought was news, was really just gossip or conjecture.
So we've got Ryan Holiday here. He's a media manipulator and he explains how this happens:
Ryan: So what I've quickly discovered is that the media was this sort of hierarchy or chain. The bottom you have small blogs who have small readerships but correspondingly low threshold for what they will and will not publish.
Ryan: Say this blog publishes a rumor then Business Insider or The Huffington Post or Perez Hilton writes about it. And now, because of the stature of those sites, it becomes something that people are talking about on Twitter, on Facebook, on e-mail, they're chattering about it, and what happens is, producers for CNN, producers for a right wing talk radio, journalists for The New York Times
Writing practice
Write a couple of paragraphs ---->>>> instructions <<<<-----. Make sure to use words you learned from the text and try to make it as long as you can.
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