MEDIA Flashcards
la presse
the press, the print media
Un magazine (sérieux)
a journal
Un commentateur/
a commentator, a news analyst
Un chroniqueur
/ a columnist
un reportage ,faireun reportage
a report ,to report on sth
Le journalisme d’investigation/
investigative journalism
Le tirage/
circulation
Couvrir un evenement/
La couverture médiatique/
to cover un event
media coverage
Le battage médiatique/
(media) hype
Un kiosque a journaux/
a newsstand
Un marchand de journaux/
a newsagent
Les gros titres/
Faire les gros titres/
the headlines
to hit the headlines
Le jargon des journalistes/
journalese
Un éditorial/
an éditorial, a leading article, a leader
Un graphique, un diagramme/
a graph, a chart
Une legende/
a caption
Un exemplaire/
a copy
Un numéro/
an issue
L’actualite/
current évents, current affairs
Une fuite/
a leak
Impartial/
unbiased, impartial
The phone-hacking scandal
The phone-hacking scandal broke out in July 2011. Indeed, The Guardian revealed that News for the World, a Sunday newspaper, had some of their employees specialized in phone and home surveillance of celebrities and other famous people.
The Fourth Estate
The Fourth Estate is an expression to refer to the media, especially to the press. The expression was coined in 1797 by Edmund Burke. The Fourth Estate completes the Lords Spiritual, the lords Temporal and the Commons.
Hegel, le philosophe allemand, aurait declare que « la lecture du journal dumatin est la prière matinale du réaliste »
Hegel, the German philosopher, is believed to have said that « Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer «
