Answer these questions about the language in the text in B.

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Fill the gaps with words from B.

Match the two parts of the collocations used in the text “A” above.

1 air groups

2 issue conference

3 muck bite

4 press season

5 pressure raking

6 silly sources

7 sound a statement

8 tap your views

I started my career as a journalist working as a reporter on the local................... (1) in my hometown. The first thing I had to do was to take over the role of agony aunt. This was quite difficult for an eighteen-year-old boy straight out of school! Still, I managed to produce enough………(2) and in time for my first…………..(3). When that first column of mine ……….(4) to press, I felt extremely relieved and was so proud that I stayed up all night so that I could get half a dozen copies………..(5) off the press for all the members of my family! I still have a copy of that first article of mine in a folder where I keep……….(6) of all the work that I am especially proud of.

1 Would you write to a chief editor asking for a job on 'his rag'? Why / Why not?

2 What do you think about newspapers if you refer to them as the gutter press?

3 What is it very important for journalists not to miss?

4 Can you give an example of a famous fashion glossy?

5 What two words might describe the kind of story that a journalist dreams of getting?

6 What two expressions refer to the moment of publication of a big story?

7 Which two crimes are mentioned in the text and what do they consist of?

8 What might a film star keep in her scrapbook of press cuttings?

4) Rewrite these sentences so that they mean the same thing, using the word in brackets.

1 Every newspaper inevitably gives its own particular view of events. (spin)

2 I have to find some articles from some previous editions of The Times. (back)

3 Read all about the royal divorce! Only just published. (hot)

4 The floods took up more space in the papers than any other story this week. (column)

5 Politicians are always ready and willing to give their opinions to the press. (air)

6 The story about the scandal surrounding her uncle broke on her wedding day. (hit)

7 Any newspaper does all it can to prevent being sued for libel. (character)

8 Muck-raking is a characteristic activity of an inferior kind of newspaper. (press)

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