Which part of the text does each statement refer to?

#1. The journalist must be a first-rate general reporter. (...5)

#2. The beginner must start with tackling the problem of languages. (..8)

#3. It is important for journalists to know several foreign languages. (...9)

#4. To know a language means to be able to do different things. (...10)

#5. To cover the world’s news is the dream of many cub-reporters. (...2)

1. The life and work of the Foreign Correspondent have a strong appeal for most young men and women in journalism.

2. To cover the world’s news from China to Peru, from Kyiv to Cape Town, to send back dispatches under date-lines from “far-away places with strange-sounding names” is the secret dream of many cub-reporters.

3. The work of the foreign correspondent is something much wider than the mere reporting of events.

4. He must give his readers at home a complete background service explaining and interpreting the news, providing eye-witness descriptions of scenes and happenings, conjuring up the atmosphere in which events are taking place, mailing informative articles periodically which will make newspaper readers familiar with the background of affairs.

5. The journalist who wishes to make a success as an “ambassador of the Press” must be a first-rate general reporter.

6. He must have a nose for the news and a keenly developed sense of news values.

7. He must be a good listener and a good mixer.

8. The beginner in journalism who is determined to make a Foreign Correspondent his aim, must begin by tackling the problem of languages.

9. He should know at least two languages, apart from his own.

10. It must be remembered that to know a language means to be able to write the language fluently, take down speeches in shorthand, follow conversations through the distorting medium of the telephone, and the like.

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Which part of the text does each statement refer to?

#1. “News is the unusual”. (...2)

#2. The editor’s interests correspond to those of readers. (...6)

#3. Human interest reports fall into the good news category. (...8)

#4. The news does not always contain good things. (...7)

#5. “Good News” program failed in the ratings. (...10)

1. News is something out-of-the-ordinary that will happen, that is happening, or that did happen just a minute ago and will interest people beyond those immediately involved.

2. As the editor of a West Coast daily said: “News is the unusual”.

3. Too often, perhaps, news is crime, sensationalism, the exposure of corruption.

4. The editor is not interested in the 50 houses in the neighbourhood that didn’t burn down yesterday.

5. The editor has to do his job.

6. He is interested in the houses that burnt because you – the reader, listener, and viewer – are interested.

7. All of us have probably said, at one time or another, “Why don’t they ever put anything good on the news?”

8. Of course, there are feature stories and human interest reports that fall into the good news category.

9. But ask yourself, “Would I watch the ten o’clock news if that was all they reported?”

10. Ask Ted Turner how interested people really are in good news. His cable superstition, TBS, offered a “Good News” program every evening in 1983. It failed in the ratings.

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Date: 2016-01-03; view: 1167