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B1 Intermediate English 4:49 Educational

How to choose your news - Damon Brown

TED-Ed · 1,652,654 views · Added 1 month ago

Learning Stats

B1

CEFR Level

5/10

Difficulty

Subtitles (104 segments)

00:08

How do you know what's happening in your world?

00:11

The amount of information just a click away

00:13

may be limitless,

00:15

but the time and energy we have

00:17

to absorb and evaluate it is not.

00:20

All the information in the world won't be very useful

00:23

unless you know how to read the news.

00:25

To your grandparents, parents,

00:27

or even older siblings,

00:29

this idea would have sounded strange.

00:31

Only a few decades ago, news was broad-based.

00:34

Your choices were limited

00:36

to a couple of general interest magazines

00:38

and newspaper of record,

00:39

and three or four TV networks

00:42

where trusted newscasters delivered the day's news

00:45

at the same reliable time every evening.

00:48

But the problems with this system soon became apparent

00:51

as mass media spread.

00:53

While it was known that authoritarian countries

00:54

controlled and censored information,

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