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Unit 5 Through The Grapevine: Video Script

Social media has changed news reporting by allowing ordinary people to spread news stories and provide eyewitness accounts, though it also raises issues of verifying the accuracy of stories. Major news organizations now recognize social media as important and train journalists to incorporate social media, but about half of people say they have read untrue stories on social media.

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Unit 5 Through The Grapevine: Video Script

Social media has changed news reporting by allowing ordinary people to spread news stories and provide eyewitness accounts, though it also raises issues of verifying the accuracy of stories. Major news organizations now recognize social media as important and train journalists to incorporate social media, but about half of people say they have read untrue stories on social media.

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Open Mind Intermediate

video script

Unit 5  Through the grapevine

Video script
Social media such as Facebook and Twitter have completely changed the way
we communicate in the 21st century. With hundreds of millions of people using
it around the world, social media has changed the way we meet people, chat
with friends, find and apply for jobs, discuss global issues … and even how we
organise parties.
Another area that has changed greatly is journalism and news reporting.
Not so long ago, almost everybody learned the news from either radio and
television or newspapers. Today more and more people are getting their
news from social media. For example, two big news stories in the past few
years have been the announcement of the Royal Wedding of Prince William
and Kate Middleton, and the crash landing of a plane into the Hudson River
in New York. Neither of these stories appeared first on BBC News, CNN
News or another news site. These news stories first showed up on Twitter, and
spread quickly around the world through social media, before the big news
organisations picked them up.
Major news organisations understand that news reporting is changing. The
Senior Vice President of digital operations at The New York Times explained
that social media and regular reporting were working together very well.
Journalists working for traditional news companies are now highly trained in
how to use social media, and YouTube videos, comments on Twitter and other
parts of social media are regularly included in reporting.
In some ways, the use of social media has improved news reporting. With
ordinary people filming and photographing events and putting this material
online right away, news has become more instant. It also provides more
material for big news organisations to use in their own reporting. A good
example of this was the tsunami that affected Japan in 2011. Reports showed
what was happening through videos and comments from people who were
actually watching the tsunami hit. Social media also gives ordinary people a
voice – anybody can now be included in the news process, tell their own story
and say what they think.
However, there are some problems. The biggest problem is what to believe.
When asked if they trusted the news on social media, almost 50% of people
said that they had read a news story but had later learned that it was not true.
The difficulty is that social media is not checked in the same way as traditional
media. Anybody can write anything, without asking permission, and people
may post false, damaging or even illegal information on social media sites.
Social media has certainly changed the way we get news, and will continue to
change it. We must be careful to keep checks on the way social media is used,
but in general the future of news looks bright.

© Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

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