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From the Ted Talk by Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So it's a really interesting time to be a journalist, but the upheaval that I'm iteeesntrd in is not on the output side. It's on the input side. It's concern with how we get iorfotniamn and how we gather the news. And that's changed, because we've had a huge shift in the balance of power from the news organizations to the aciedune. And the audience for such a long time was in a piooitsn where they didn't have any way of affecting news or making any change. They couldn't really connect. And that's chagend irrevocably.

Open Cloze

So it's a really interesting time to be a journalist, but the upheaval that I'm __________ in is not on the output side. It's on the input side. It's concern with how we get ___________ and how we gather the news. And that's changed, because we've had a huge shift in the balance of power from the news organizations to the ________. And the audience for such a long time was in a ________ where they didn't have any way of affecting news or making any change. They couldn't really connect. And that's _______ irrevocably.

Solution

  1. information
  2. interested
  3. audience
  4. changed
  5. position

Original Text

So it's a really interesting time to be a journalist, but the upheaval that I'm interested in is not on the output side. It's on the input side. It's concern with how we get information and how we gather the news. And that's changed, because we've had a huge shift in the balance of power from the news organizations to the audience. And the audience for such a long time was in a position where they didn't have any way of affecting news or making any change. They couldn't really connect. And that's changed irrevocably.

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Important Words

  1. affecting
  2. audience
  3. balance
  4. change
  5. changed
  6. concern
  7. connect
  8. gather
  9. huge
  10. information
  11. input
  12. interested
  13. interesting
  14. irrevocably
  15. journalist
  16. long
  17. making
  18. news
  19. organizations
  20. output
  21. position
  22. power
  23. shift
  24. side
  25. time
  26. upheaval