Level Language: Basic
Standard: British Accent
SCOOP
Journalism is fiercely competitive and newspapers are constantly looking for new stories: They all want to discover the next international scoop. A scoop is an exclusive news story that one newspaper publishes before all the others. Papers are often willing to pay a lot for such stories and there are even media agencies which help individuals get the best price. It’s a cut-throat world!
The word scoop has very simple origins: it’s a large spoon used to serve ice cream, and to scoop is the action of removing the ice cream from the container. It’s also a vehicle used by builders to dig holes in the ground, scooping up the earth. A newspaper scoops up a news story and publishes it under the headline: “Exclusive Story!”
TABLOIDS
In Britain newspapers come in two sizes: there are the newer, small-format editions called tabloids and the more traditional, large-format broadsheets. In Britain tabloid is synonymous with scandal sheet: that’s a newspaper that publishes sensational stories about the rich and famous, Celebrities sometimes offer these newspapers photo ops, the opportunity to take their photographs, but newspapers pay photographers to follow stars and take pictures of them in embarrassing situations. These photographers are called paparazzi and this name comes from Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita.
Times are, however, changing. Today several quality British “broadsheet” papers are published in the smaller “tabloid” format.
Glossary
Fiercely: ferozmente
Stories: artigos, matérias
Willing: dispostos
Cut-throat: cruel e inescrupuloso
Spoon: colher
Builders: construtoras
To dig holes: Cavar buracos
Headline: manchete
Scandals sheet: jornal sensacionalista.
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