Карточки News Consumption Part A

a news media outlet

e.g. He was an American, a journalist based in Beijing covering China for a United States news media outlet.

the broadcasting channel \publication providing news, information and feature stories to the public by way of newspapers, magazines, social media and the Internet, television and radio

a newsroom

e.g. The newsroom just received a press release.

an office at a television or radio station or a newspaper where news is collected and reports are prepared for broadcasting or publishing

a news cycle

1. The length of time between the end of one news broadcast or delivery and the beginning of the next.

2. the amount of time that passes between the release of one edition of a news outlet and the follow up edition

a feed (information)

e.g. Your Twitter feed refreshes automatically to show new tweets.

●an Internet service in which updates from electronic information sources (such as blogs or social media accounts) are presented in a continuous stream

●the information presented by such a service

human interest

e.g. I like newspapers with lots of human interest stories in them.

the aspect of a story in the media that interests people because it describes the experiences or emotions of individuals to which others can relate.

deadpan (reporting)

e.g. She put the letter on the desk in front of me, her face deadpan, not a flicker of a smile.

displaying no emotional or personal involvement

a post-truth era

e.g. In this post-truth era, science is needed more than ever.

Objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than personal beliefs or appeals to emotion

the political spectrum

range of political views

biased

( Eg: It was a biased report )

(adj.) favoring one side unduly; prejudiced

SYNONYMS: unfair, partial, bigoted

ANTONYMS: fair, impartial, unprejudiced, just

impartial

(adj) (e.g. Reports on the case were fair

and impartial)

unbiased; neutral; objective

sensationalism

e.g. The newspaper has been accused of sensationalism in its coverage of the murders.

(esp. in journalism) the use of exciting or shocking stories or language at the expense of accuracy, in order to provoke public interest or excitement

superficial (a)

(eg: he's fun to be with, but he's very superficial )

(adj.) on or near the surface; concerned with or understanding only what is on the surface;

appearing to be true or real only until examined more closely.

Syn: shallow

Listicle

A piece of writing or other content presented wholly or partly in the form of a list

news snacking

e.g. Newman describes the new way of consuming the news as "snacking": "Rather than sitting down at a prearranged time, what the internet has done is enabled you to be in control of [when you look at the news].

People Are Checking the News More Frequently and for Shorter Amounts of Time.

a vicious circle

e.g. Many people get caught/trapped in a vicious circle of dieting and weight gain.

a continuing unpleasant situation, created when one problem causes another problem that then makes the first problem worse

exaggerated

e.g. exaggerated reports of the problem

overstated or overdone

enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness