full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Five years ago, I had my dream job. I was a fogrien correspondent in the Middle East reporting for ABC News. But there was a crack in the wall, a problem with our industry, that I felt we neeedd to fix. You see, I got to the mdlide East right around the end of 2007, which was just around the midpoint of the Iraq War. But by the time I got there, it was already nearly impossible to find sroties about Iraq on air. Coverage had dropped across the board, across networks. And of the stories that did make it, more than 80 percent of them were about us. We were misnisg the stories about Iraq, the people who live there, and what was happening to them under the weight of the war.
Open Cloze
Five years ago, I had my dream job. I was a _______ correspondent in the Middle East reporting for ABC News. But there was a crack in the wall, a problem with our industry, that I felt we ______ to fix. You see, I got to the ______ East right around the end of 2007, which was just around the midpoint of the Iraq War. But by the time I got there, it was already nearly impossible to find _______ about Iraq on air. Coverage had dropped across the board, across networks. And of the stories that did make it, more than 80 percent of them were about us. We were _______ the stories about Iraq, the people who live there, and what was happening to them under the weight of the war.
Solution
- needed
- middle
- missing
- stories
- foreign
Original Text
Five years ago, I had my dream job. I was a foreign correspondent in the Middle East reporting for ABC News. But there was a crack in the wall, a problem with our industry, that I felt we needed to fix. You see, I got to the Middle East right around the end of 2007, which was just around the midpoint of the Iraq War. But by the time I got there, it was already nearly impossible to find stories about Iraq on air. Coverage had dropped across the board, across networks. And of the stories that did make it, more than 80 percent of them were about us. We were missing the stories about Iraq, the people who live there, and what was happening to them under the weight of the war.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
middle east |
2 |
industrious optimist |
2 |
idea number |
2 |
embrace complexity |
2 |
complex world |
2 |
Important Words
- abc
- air
- board
- correspondent
- coverage
- crack
- dream
- dropped
- east
- felt
- find
- fix
- foreign
- happening
- impossible
- industry
- iraq
- job
- live
- middle
- midpoint
- missing
- needed
- networks
- news
- people
- percent
- problem
- reporting
- stories
- time
- wall
- war
- weight
- years