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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
- information
- interested
- audience
- changed
- 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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