Wednesday, 26 September 2012

The media

Watch the following podcast about different people's opinion on the media:



Answer in your own words the same questions that the speakers are asked (they are at 0:12 , 1:08, 2:00, 2:48)

Please post your answers in a comment below.

33 comments:

  1. Well, usually I read the news online, I get into pages of newspapers and there I fixed everything. Overall I liked everything about the sport, and sometimes some politics. In my case, I believe that new technologies and globalization make the news arrive much faster and covers much more territory. I think there are several stories that are worthwhile, but many others do not, such stories of famous people or fights that has nothing to do with me.
    Valentine Pastorini

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    1. Good answers, Valentin. Please work on the last question :)

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  2. Generally, I look at the news on the internet, but also i see them and hear them, at night on television and in the morning on the radio. I do not usually watch the news of robberies, fights or policy, I look at sports news. New technological developments, help information get information instantly and quick so you have better communication and understanding of what is happening at the moment. I also think that the information is modified according to the environment in which it is.

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    1. Thanks, Andres. I'd like you to expand on your last answer: what do you mean by 'the environment' information is in?

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  3. For the first question, I usually try to find out news on tv or radio also. Sometimes I read the newspaper too.
    According to the second question, I'm intrested on sports news, and also I like to read about what's happenning on my country and in all over the world too. I don't like celebrities news so much, some of them seemed to be boring.
    Nowadays we are permanently in contact with news every time, for example, with the new movilephones technology you can be informed of what's happenning at the moment via internet when ever you want to.
    And for the last one. No, not always. Here in Argentina we have a clear example of the misuse of the information, for example in the problem between Clarin group and the Goverment. They use their power not to report people but they use it to fight their enemy and make beleave the people things that not always are true. They censured a lot of information.

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    1. Very interesting answers, Santiago! Watch your language, though

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    2. Hi Mariela. I should watch my lenguaje on what?

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    4. Little things, probably because you're focusing on what you want to say rather than how you're saying it. But there are silly mistakes in tenses, prepositions, spelling, that kind of thing, you know?

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  4. i usually watch the news on the tv or the internet, and also from the morning radio.I am interested in a lot of news, but especially I like thing about celebrities and new products, and restaurants. I think that the tecnollogy change the way of the news, now you can read inmediatly what is happening, even from the online new's paper or twitter.
    I think that generally yes, but sometimes they tend to say thing quickly( to be the first who said it) and sometimes the info is not completely true.

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  5. Mariela, some videos of youtube I don't know why but mi computer don't download them. I want to know if I can do it on wednesday with a notebook of the school.
    Thank you.

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  6. Finally I can see it. I usually whatch the news on the tv, internet, and sometimes on the radio. I think that the internet is the most complete, because you can search about everithing you want. I am only intrested about the news that are about sports because I really like them. Sometimes a search about videos, films or games. I think that new technological developments change a lot the wey of the new, they help us to be in constantly comunication, hence we are always update.
    About the last question, I think similar to one of the answers the videos say, that in general yes, but there are some particular ocations thay not, for example when they haunt celebrities. And also when they try to manipulate people.

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    1. Very good answers, Gonzalo.
      If you have problems with your computer, I'm sure you can use the ones at school, just ask Carlos :)

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  7. For the first question asked, i can say that i used to watch the news on television, sometimes i read newspaper or listen to the radio with my father.
    I like to be informed about news on medicine for example and also about accidents and facts related with violence and robberies; they're interesting for me.
    Actually, modern technology change the way we received news. We are in contact with all kind of news every time. We had platforms in our celphones so we can know everything that happend. Also we are in the internet much more than in the past so it's easier to get informed. We can know things in real time, this mean be informed instantly.
    I think that the media is using resposibly generally, otherwise, sometimes happend that the information we received is not completely true and this affect all people. The media has power and this power need to be used correctly.

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  8. 1- I always watch the news on tv, every night.

    2- I´m interested in the most of the news, but the news I like most are about technology or entertainment.

    3- I think that the technology moved us closer to the news and the things that happen in every moment, with a computer or simply with a movile phone.

    4- I think that the media use their power to modify the information or compete whith other media.


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  9. 1) I usually watch the TV in the mornings. I also get informed in the internet due to social networks, because I liked Clarín and La Nación and sometimes I get some news in the home page. Also, if I want to find out about a certain piece of news, I search on it on the internet.

    2) The kind of news that interested me the most are the ones that has to do with national political issues, international politics and also literature and entertainment. I don't like celebrity gossip news; I think that they are not worth watching.

    3) I think that modern technology has changed a lot the way the media interacted with us but also in the way that the different kind of media interacts with each other. For example, I can listen to the radio on the Internet or in my mobile phone. But I can still listen to the radio in a radio machine. I think modern technology had widened up the choices that the persons have to communicate and also make it much easier to be in touch with the news and what's going on around the world.

    4) In our country, I think that the media is not responsibly used because there is a communicational war between one group of the media (Clarín Group) and the national media. I think this confrontation is clearly showed when the news are displayed. One group take one aspect or one ideology while the other media take the opposite ideology to show the news. So, the first object of the journalism is forgotten: to show the news in the most objective way to the society. In my view, the media manipulates people to believe things that might not be quick as the way they showed us to be.

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  10. I read the news on tv and also i get them frim the internet.
    I prefer national news but I don't like political ones.
    The media made a big changed, now we are more conected, we can be in contact with people from all the world and by this way we can know a lot of different things.
    I think this help news be known by more people. Years ago nobody couldn't imagine that news can be posted on the internet. Nowadays a lot of people don't buy newspaper, they read them on the internet. And also,people who read them on the internet perhaps before they didn't buy newspaper.

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    1. Good answers, Mariana. Please work on the last question.

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  11. 1. I often watch the news on tv, but lately I've been reading the newspapers on the internet. Also, most of the times when I found out about something that happened in other country, it's because of a social network I'm part of that's about art, but some artists sometimes talk about politics.

    2. I'm interested in national and international happenings and politics, but I also want to know about music related news.

    3. In my opinion, the social network technology in particular has changed the media quite a lot, meaning not only that we're more in contact with every media itself, but also, that some media use the information found in, for example, Facebook, without knowing the source. That has lowered the quality of the news.

    4. In almost every country, the power of the media is used wrongly to respond to private interests, banning and modifying information, creating a "reality" that benefits the powerfull ones. Even if we have laws to try to prevent this to happen, I think it's also responsability of normal people like us to be informed correctly and not to believe everything they say to us.

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    1. I agree with the fact that some media has become quite 'unreliable'. It really takes critical thinking to analyse the news...

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  12. 1) I always watch the news on television, while lunch or dinner with my family.

    2)I often interested in celebrity news or entertainment.

    3)I think that the technology influences in the media because, for example, if you do not have a TV in your home, can see it online. You can do the same with the radio.

    4) I think media has the power of conviction to the audience. For example, A tv program can change your mind, just because it could convince you.

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  13. I ussually listen at the news on the radio in the mornings when I´m going to school on my car, or I look for them on the internet especially for the sports part of the newspeper all the mornings too.
    The kinds of news that I prefer are the ones of politic stuff, music and sports. And I don´t like very much the economic news, I get bored with these kind of news.
    The media has change a lot with new technology, internet of course is a radical change because we can upload, donwload and watch information all the time in almost everywhere. We can use our celphone, our mp5 our tablet to be always conected to internet , and be up dated with all the news everytime.
    Obviously in our country not, because the media groups use their power to control the society and they didn´t inform us about what is really happening in our country. There are just a few journalist that do their work well and infmorm us without second intentions.

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  14. 1) i usually listen to the radio at the morining, so i get informed from there. Then when i got home at night my mum is always watching the news so, sometimes i also watch them with her. if i want to read about a specially new i use the internet to serch for it.

    2) the news which im interested in are sports, technology, entretainment and some international issues aslo. i hate celebrity gossips and those kind of things.

    3) nowadays techonlogy has improved so much. you can get informed from internet, so you dont need to buy the newspaper or watch tv. also you can read what you want from our new mobilephones so you dont have to be in a computer to get informed. furthermore i can listen to radio o watch tv on my mobilephone that is comfortable and an esier way to get what i want.

    4) i think that generally yes, but when the goverment is involved there are lots of problems of communication, not laying if not media dont said the things clearly so people get confused in many of the cases.

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    1. Good answers, Manuel. I got a little lost at the end of q4, can you re-phrase that?

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  15. 1. I obtain information by means of Internet, entering to different on-line diaries. Anyway, the way of communication that I use for the most part is the television. The weekends I read the newspaper.

    2. Principally I'm interested in the news related to the sports, though I like to be informed about the events that can affect me.

    3. I believe that the new technologies concerned positively the news, since by means of them we can obtain a lot of information of very rapid form. This also generates that not all the information is real, as which it is necessary to have care of the sites wherefrom we extract the information

    4. Yes, I believe that in general the mass media expire with his function, though in our country, and due to the "fights" between the big multimedia and the officialist media, not all the information it is real

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    1. Good answers, Borja.
      Be careful with language, though: sometimes it sounds as if you were trying to translate from Spanish, so some of the vocabulary and structures you use sound very weird...

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  16. 1- For the first question, i usually get to learn about the news of the world in the internet, i dont really fancy warching the TV news, but my parents do, so sometimes i get to know something from there as well. A couple of years ago my parents used to buy the newspaper every sunday so i loved to read the "espectaculo" section.

    2- Im really interested in knowing about cinema, the wolrd of music and sometimes just curiosities.

    3- I belibe that the new technologies have really change the way we comunicate and we get to learn about the news arround the world, in a more effective and fastter way. although sometimes the info we get from the internet might not be true,for the internet is free and everybody can upload information, so is necesary to be aware of the reliable places to get the info.

    4- In the case of our country, i think the media are really irresponsable about the way to handle the news, they change and even manipulate them in order to get to change our opinions about certain topics, especially about politics, and i do not agree with that.

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