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VOCAB 1
Un canapé 2
En raison de
Le 4e pouvoir
Inventer une expression
L'essor de
Une agence de presse
Mettre à jour, dénoncer
Des docs obtenus grace à une fuite
Inventer une histoire
Un document classé secret
A
A settee, a couch
Owing to
Le Fourth Estate
To coin an expression
The rise of 
A syndicate
To expose
Leaked documents
To spin a tale of
A classified document
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VOCAB2 :
Un détracteur
La politique national
Le fonctionnement, les rouages
Apporter un support sans faille à 3
Un parti-pris
Railleuve
Qui propose 2 approches bien DISTINCTES
Article principal donné en converture
Un bénéficiaire
Connaître des difficultés
A
A critic
Domestic politics
The workings of
To support sb/ endorse sb/ to steadfastly sb
A slant
Derisive
Two-pronged
A cover story
A recipient
To undergo difficulties
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VOCAB3
Des parts de marché
Puissant 3
Un film à grd succes
Galopant, endémique
Un rouleur compresseur
Avoir recours à
Une collecte de fonds
Fait sur mesure
Etre sacrifié sur l'autel de
Faire vibrer la corde...
A
Market shares
Potent, mighty, powerful
A blockbuster
Rampant
A steamroller
To resort to
Fundraising
Tailor-made
To be sacrificied on the altar of
To strike a chord
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Des sources bien informées, la conférence de presse est destinée à tordre le coup de la rumeur avant qu’elle n’enfle

Les scandales sur la vie des celebrités font plus svt la UNE que certains Q d’actud qui meritent pourtant une couverture mediatique plus importante

Ex: Trump ? Started critiCIZING the media during his presidencial campaign and has not stopped ever since

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From knowledgeable / authorised sources, the press conference is aimed at QUASHING/SCOTCHING the rumour before it starts flying about

Celebrity scandals hit the HEADLINES /FRONT page more oftenly that some TOPICAL ISSUES that WOULD YED deserve more media coverage

Ex: Journalists should stop taking Trump’s bait: demeans them calling them “ the fake news” media -> raised controversy -> journalists bank on entertainment to appeal viewers -> rise of fake news, YELLOWING journalism..

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À force de dénigrer et diffamer les hommes politiques, les MARCHANDS de ragots vont finir par susciter l’hostilité du public

Les commérages, mensonges et lavages de cerveau sont les caractéristiques de la presse a sensas qui s’immisce en permanence dans la vie privée des gens

Mais peut-on légitimement attendre d’un journaliste qu’il ns livre l’info pure sans tenter de façonner l’opnion publique? Souligne pb d’ethiques etc

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By DINT of running down and libelling politicians/ Because they constantly RUN DOWN and LIBEL politicians, gossips MONGERS will END UP AROUSING the public’s ANIMOSITY

Gossips, lies and brain-washing characterise the GUTTER press / YELLOWING journalism which constantly PRY into people’s private lives

But can journalists be legitimately expected to provide us straight news without trying to mould public opinion??

Emphasizes ethical issues, also the viewer’s responsabilty, most prefer entertainment.. law of supply and demand

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INFLUENCE

  • On dit souvent les jeunes De nos jours passent tout leur temps dvt la tele, comme s’ils etaient hyptonisés par l’ecran, mais.. etudes mq que tendance chez ts les ages
  • les jeux/ emissions de variété st suceptibles de pousser gens a acheter biens de conso
  • Certains presentateurs d’emissions de variete / journaux tele sont dev de veritables instituions, dt les chaunes peuvent diff se passer
  • SOFT POWER: courps geopo armstrong MOON
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  • Common wisdom has it that nowadays kids are HOPELESS COUCH POTATOED, as if they were mesmerized by the TV SET, while in reality affects all age groups
  • Game/variety shows are likely to urge people to buy CONSUMERS GOODS/Brainwash people INTO BUYING
  • some variety-show EMCEES and NEWS PRESENTATORD have become anchormen, WHOM channels could hardly DO WITHOUT
  • soft power trough TV: O games, FB WC.. NEIL ARM..
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POLEMICS

  • Ds notre sociéte ou medias si importants, n’est guère surprenant que “les petites phrases soient dev un des moyens de com preferes des pol “Its the economy, stupid” B clinton
  • La presse écrite survivra-t-elle à l’essor d’Internet? Rien n’est moins sûr..
  • La paternité de l’expression du 4e pouvoir est discutée..
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  • Some press tycoons intentionally LEAK the rumour SO AS TO keep its public entertained
  • In our media-driven society, it is HARDLY SUPRISING that SOUNDBITES should have become one of politician’s favourite methods of communication
  • The written press is highly unlikely to resist the rise of the Internet
  • who coined the phrase “Fourth Estate” remains a disputed point: some say E.BURKE did, WHILE OTHERS belived T.CARLYLE did
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VOCAB
Appât 2
Polir 2
Une critique incendiaire 
Un large éventail 3
Diffamer 3
Vulgaire 4
"Clasher", " tapper" (plaquer contre sol)
Calomnier qlq comme 2
Mépriser 4
Comparable à
Entâcher la réputation de qq 2
S'abaisser au niveau de qq
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Bait, lure
To burnish, polish
A sniping, to snipe at sm
Full scale, wide-ranging, all-out
To slander, DEFAME, disparage, libel
Crude, coarse, rude, vulgar
To slam, to HITCH, to clash, to punch sm (to body slam )
To libel / to brand sm as
To contempt or despise ( only a verb! ) , scorn, disdain
AKIN TO, SIMILAR TO
To smear, to harm the rep of
To stoop down to sb's level
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VOCAB
Un grand desir de faire.. 2

Critiquer # faire de la critique # c’est critique # critique adj ou article

La politique # une politique # politique ajd# politicians are all crooked

Tenir qlq pour responsable de..
Critiquer durement 3
Etre choquant 4
Creer artificiellement
Un scandal
Significatif
Insultes
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To itch to do smt, to crave to do smt

To CRITICIZE # CRITICISM # IT’S CRITICAL # A CRITIC

Politics # a policy # political # politician

To hold sb accountable for
To castigate, to reprimand, to lambast
To be vile, shameful, sinful, disgraceful
To gin up, to generate
An outrage
Consequential
Slides
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VOCAB
le QG
Ds l'optique de
Enthousiaste
Comme le prouve..
Le tirage des journeaux
Un journal gratuit
La presse à scandales
Un journal grand format
A lowbrow
Une intox
A
Headquarters
With a view to + ING
Keen
As evidenced by..
Circulation
A freebie
The gutter press
A broadsheet
Un peu inllectuel
A hoax
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VOCAB
Une autorité de surveillance
Des demissions de personnalités influentes
Un journal de reference
Faire la une
La tendance politique
Ettouffer une affaire, disculper, blanchir
Douteux
À juste titre
Abaisser le niveau de qlchose
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A watchdog
High-profil resignations
A newspaper of record
To hit the front-page
Political leaning
To whitewash
Spurious
RighTLY
To dumb down sth
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VOCAB
Se laisser aller à
Chauvin ( "xenophobe")
Des élections législatives
Mal famé # connu
Coupé du monde ext, borné
Le redacteur en chef
Un titre
S'adresser à un public..
Un juste milieu
Pur et simple, categorique
A
To indulge in
Jingoistic
A general election
Notorious# famé
Insular
The editor
A masthead
To cater for sb
A happy medium
Downright (ajd, adv)
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VOCAB
Intervention reduite de l'Etat
L'emporter sur
Un article d'opinion
Obédience, conviction
Un produit phare
Un conseil d'aministrations
Respinsable dvt
Parti pris politique
Rendre plus attrayant
Disculper
A
Small government
To prevail over
An opinion column
Persuasion
A flagship product
A board of governos
Answerable to
Political bias
To sex up
To exonerate
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CKLFFN

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VOCAB
l'exemple parfaite de
Un feuilleton à l'eau de rose
Un arrondissement
Etre sacrifie sur l'autrl fr
Faire vibrr la corde
Un fouineur
L'info-spectacle
Inoffensif
Prudent
Hâtif
Le piratage de lignes telephoniques
A
The epitome of
A soap-opera
A borough
To be sacrificied on the altar of
To strike a chord
A muckraker
Infotainment
Toothleds
Wary
Hasty
Phone hacking
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VOCAB
Espionner 2
S'embraser, eclater 2
Se declencher a nouveau
Le non respect des lois
Se repandre, impregner
En retard, qui tarde
Indignation
Sinistre
Porté disparu
Déni, dénégation
Une condamnation
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To spy on, to spoon
To flare up, burst open..
To (re)ignite
Lawlessness
To permeate
Overdue
Outrage
Grim
Reported missing
Denial
A conviction
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VOCAB
Etre en droit de faire qlq chose
To be in the limelight
Irreprochable
Examiner minutieusement
En puissance, qui aspire a..
Un acte
Dependre de
Un coureur de jupons
Les frasques de ql
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To be entitled to so sth
To be in the limelight
Spotless
To scrutinise
Would-be
A deed
To hinge on
A womaniser
Sb's antics
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VOCAB
Un rachat # une fusion
Suivre qlq fe pres, harceler 
Un relais, intermediaire
Nuancer
Des mefauts
Le "scandale des notes de frais"
A part entiere
Rentable
A
A takeover # a merGER
To dog sb
A go-between
To qualify
Wrongdoing
The expense scandal
Fully-fledged
Profitable