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          3  A   am looking (leaving out I), put me up, didn’t,   8 Media matters
               meet up, I’d, I’ll be around, Don’t worry, it’s,
               loads of, it’d be good
           B  no informal features                              Listening | Part 3
           C   to get everyone together, we’re asking, ask
               someone over, It’s, hopefully, shouldn’t         1  1   when it was still a new medium available to mass
           D   Just a short note (leaving out This is), as well,     audiences –  probably in the 1950s
               set the evening up                                 2   a detailed study
           E   no informal features                               3   They enjoy it greatly.
                                                                  4   Citizen journalism is written by ordinary people
        3  Suggested answers                                         rather than trained journalists.
          1   (This is) Just to let you know (that) …

          2   your holiday that’s coming up soon / the holiday   2  1 C  2 D  3 A  4 D  5 C  6 B

            you’ve got coming up
         3   will be taken from your credit card                      CD 2 Track 02
          4   the week after you leave                           Interviewer:  In today’s On Message I’m joined by Harry
          5   I’m very sorry about this                            Cameron, the veteran journalist, who has witnessed
          6   We try really hard                                   many changes in his profession over the last nearly sixty
          7   To start with, I wanted to know about / I asked      years. Harry, welcome.
            about                                                Cameron:  Thank you.
          8   If you want / you’d like me to do it for you       Interviewer:  Harry, can you tell me what being a journalist
          9   There’s something else we need to think about        was like when you started as a junior reporter?
          10   I can’t tell you what to do about this
                                                                 Cameron:  My main memory of those far-off days is the
                                                                   sense of pride I felt at writing for a respected national
        4  Suggested answers                                       newspaper. It was a real honour. What you have to
          A  Good to hear from you – it’ll be great to get
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            together when you’re over here in November.            remember is that in those days people got most of
            Unfortunately, we’ve got people staying at that        their information about the world from their daily
            time, so we won’t be able to put you up – sorry.       newspapers. Television was in its infancy – something
          C  Thanks for the/your invitation to the college get-    only the rich could afford. The radio broadcast regular
            together in June. It sounds great and I’ll certainly   news bulletins, but newspapers gave people the
            be there.                                              pictures to go with the stories. Journalists like me
                                                                   travelled the world and filed reports which kept people
                                                                   up to date with everything important. I remember in
        6  Suggested answers
          At the beginning: comment on the fact that your          the early 1950s reporting from a war zone in East Asia.
          friend is planning to learn your language, ask about     I wrote my report in my hotel bedroom. I could hear
          the language course your friend is attending, give       gunfire and see plumes of smoke. I phoned the report
          some general information about your town                 through to my editor for publication a day or two later.
                                                                   I was reporting something thousands of miles from
          At the end: say you’re looking forward to seeing your    home – something the public didn’t already know.
          friend, suggest meeting during your friend’s stay
                                                                 Interviewer:  But people still read newspapers today,
                                                                   don’t they?
        7  a 4 and 9  b 1, 3, 6 and 10  c 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8
                                                                 Cameron:  Yes, of course, but I believe the function of
                                                                   newspapers has changed. If you want to know what’s
                                                                   going on in the world at any particular time, you don’t
                                                                   read a newspaper, do you? You look on the  Internet
                                                                   or turn on the telly. Whatever channel you’re watching,
                                                                   there’ll be regular news updates.
                                                                 Interviewer:  So, what can newspapers provide if not
                                                                   current news?
                                                                 Cameron:  Well, I suppose different newspapers provide
                                                                   different things, don’t they? The broadsheets give us


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