Unit 50: The news: gathering and delivering

Question 1

pressure groups

Answer 1

people trying to influence what other people think about a particular issue

Question 2

soundbite

Answer 2

short memorable sentence or phrases that will be repeated in news bulletins and articles

Question 3

soundalike

Answer 3

a person who sounds very similar to somebody who is famous

Question 4

tapping useful sources

Answer 4

making use of people or organisations which regularly provide news

Question 5

column inches

Answer 5

space

Question 6

rag

Answer 6

a newspaper that is not of very high quality

Question 7

gutter press

Answer 7

the kind of newspapers and magazines that are more interested in crime and sex than serious news

Question 8

go to press

Answer 8

be published

Question 9

back copies

Answer 9

previous issues of a paper

Question 10

run a story

Answer 10

publish a story

Question 11

libel|deformation of charactor

/ˈlaɪbl/

defamatory (adj)

Answer 11

the act of printing a statement about somebody that is not true and that gives people a bad opinion of them

Question 12

put their own glass/spin on

Answer 12

present it in their own way

Question 13

muck-racking

Answer 13

collecting scandal