TedTest

From the Ted Talk by Bret Stephens and Yordanos Eyoel: Democracy requires disagreement. Here's how to do it better

Unscramble the Blue Letters

BS: Look, I think the best way the media can protect democracy is if it should stay in its lane, which is to say you want your liver to porerfm the functions of a liver, not the fcotnunis of a heart. Everything has its place so that when too much of the media goes into the mold of effectively sacoil advocacy, it is enirdog tsurt, particularly among people who don't necessarily arege with a given type of of social advocacy. You know, back in the 1960s, we had a flawed stesym. But when Walter ctnkroie would say, "And that's the way it was this day, I don't know, March 15, 1966," America went, "Yeah." And there was a sense of authority. I think one of the ways in which the media has hurt itself is that we have allowed it -- we, I'm part of it -- we have allowed that sense of authority to dissolve. Now, part of it has to do with new technologies, social media, the desiiicvtiaofrn of the media ecosystem, cable news. You can talk about lots of exogenous reasons why trust in the media has eroded. But I kind of tend to think of, you know, physician, heal thyself. Those of us who are in the mainstream media really need to reflect in a deep way as to why so many segments of arcmeain society have stopped tusrting us. And part of the ansewr, I think, is that we have given them reasons not to trust us. It's incredibly important that the media include a much gaerter amount of diversity within its ranks. And I don't just mean diversity of race and ethnicity. Those things are obviously important. I also mean diversity of class, of ggeporhiac location. If you don't have reporters who kind of grew up in, wherever, Branson, Missouri or what here in New York we call flyover country, you're missing a big part of the story. You may have missed how it is that this guy, with no hope of becoming pesedrint in 2016 became president in 2016. So we have to be listening to those voices, particularly the ones that we disdain, dislike, don't think are worthy of inclusion. The meida cannot be an echo chamber. If that's what we end up becoming, we will disserve ourselves, we will disserve dmoarccey, we'll disserve even our own business model. Because at the end of the day, if people don't trust us, they're not going to turn to us.

Open Cloze

BS: Look, I think the best way the media can protect democracy is if it should stay in its lane, which is to say you want your liver to _______ the functions of a liver, not the _________ of a heart. Everything has its place so that when too much of the media goes into the mold of effectively ______ advocacy, it is _______ _____, particularly among people who don't necessarily _____ with a given type of of social advocacy. You know, back in the 1960s, we had a flawed ______. But when Walter ________ would say, "And that's the way it was this day, I don't know, March 15, 1966," America went, "Yeah." And there was a sense of authority. I think one of the ways in which the media has hurt itself is that we have allowed it -- we, I'm part of it -- we have allowed that sense of authority to dissolve. Now, part of it has to do with new technologies, social media, the _______________ of the media ecosystem, cable news. You can talk about lots of exogenous reasons why trust in the media has eroded. But I kind of tend to think of, you know, physician, heal thyself. Those of us who are in the mainstream media really need to reflect in a deep way as to why so many segments of ________ society have stopped ________ us. And part of the ______, I think, is that we have given them reasons not to trust us. It's incredibly important that the media include a much _______ amount of diversity within its ranks. And I don't just mean diversity of race and ethnicity. Those things are obviously important. I also mean diversity of class, of __________ location. If you don't have reporters who kind of grew up in, wherever, Branson, Missouri or what here in New York we call flyover country, you're missing a big part of the story. You may have missed how it is that this guy, with no hope of becoming _________ in 2016 became president in 2016. So we have to be listening to those voices, particularly the ones that we disdain, dislike, don't think are worthy of inclusion. The _____ cannot be an echo chamber. If that's what we end up becoming, we will disserve ourselves, we will disserve _________, we'll disserve even our own business model. Because at the end of the day, if people don't trust us, they're not going to turn to us.

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Original Text

BS: Look, I think the best way the media can protect democracy is if it should stay in its lane, which is to say you want your liver to perform the functions of a liver, not the functions of a heart. Everything has its place so that when too much of the media goes into the mold of effectively social advocacy, it is eroding trust, particularly among people who don't necessarily agree with a given type of of social advocacy. You know, back in the 1960s, we had a flawed system. But when Walter Cronkite would say, "And that's the way it was this day, I don't know, March 15, 1966," America went, "Yeah." And there was a sense of authority. I think one of the ways in which the media has hurt itself is that we have allowed it -- we, I'm part of it -- we have allowed that sense of authority to dissolve. Now, part of it has to do with new technologies, social media, the diversification of the media ecosystem, cable news. You can talk about lots of exogenous reasons why trust in the media has eroded. But I kind of tend to think of, you know, physician, heal thyself. Those of us who are in the mainstream media really need to reflect in a deep way as to why so many segments of American society have stopped trusting us. And part of the answer, I think, is that we have given them reasons not to trust us. It's incredibly important that the media include a much greater amount of diversity within its ranks. And I don't just mean diversity of race and ethnicity. Those things are obviously important. I also mean diversity of class, of geographic location. If you don't have reporters who kind of grew up in, wherever, Branson, Missouri or what here in New York we call flyover country, you're missing a big part of the story. You may have missed how it is that this guy, with no hope of becoming president in 2016 became president in 2016. So we have to be listening to those voices, particularly the ones that we disdain, dislike, don't think are worthy of inclusion. The media cannot be an echo chamber. If that's what we end up becoming, we will disserve ourselves, we will disserve democracy, we'll disserve even our own business model. Because at the end of the day, if people don't trust us, they're not going to turn to us.

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