We started off talking about the different media (radio, TV, internet, blogs, Twitter, newspapers and news magazines). We discussed about their 'freshness' (TV versus daily newspapers), their easiness of access (radio vs Internet), their biases (daily newspapers vs blogs). Also, our teacher commented on how Twitter can be a great source of instantaneous and very useful information - for example, at the protests in Iran, people would 'tweet' about where the police was, so as to alert the others of possibly dangerous paths; however, since it's impossible to know whether a tweet is true or not, the police could have spread false information on Twitter, to confuse and catch some of the protesters.
Secondly, we talked about the news video 'France Telecom suicides', from CNN:
We had been assigned to use it as a dictation; however, some of us did not know what a dictation was, so our teacher clarified that it was essentially a literal transcript. As for the video itself, we concluded that it was quite short and neutral compared to the French media coverage, which featured extensive reports on the subject. Finally, we talked a little bit about the types of stories that CNN covers: e.g., one can expect to find lots of 'hard news' from Colombia, but very few reports from France, which tend to focus on lifestyle aspects.
That's it! See you all next week!
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