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From the Ted Talk by Eve Pearlman: How to lead a conversation between people who disagree

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So in the two years since that launch — California/Alabama Project — we've gone on to host dialogues and partnerships with media onrginazoaits across the country. And they've been about some of our most contentious issues: guns, immigration, race, education. And what we found, rakelbmary, is that real dialogue is in fact possible. And that when given a cnhace and structure around doing so, many, not all, but many of our fellow citizens are egear to engage with the other.

Too often journalists have sharpened divides in the name of drama or rrsedahiep or in sevcire to our own views. And too often we've gone to each side quoting a pastrian voice on one side and a partisan voice on the other with a tlleing anecdotal lead and a pithy fainl quote, all of which readers are keen to mine for bias. But our dialogue-based process has a slower pace and a different center. And our work is guided by the principle that dialogue across difference is essential to a functioning democracy, and that journalism and journalists have a mecifelutatd role to play in supporting that.

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So in the two years since that launch — California/Alabama Project — we've gone on to host dialogues and partnerships with media _____________ across the country. And they've been about some of our most contentious issues: guns, immigration, race, education. And what we found, __________, is that real dialogue is in fact possible. And that when given a ______ and structure around doing so, many, not all, but many of our fellow citizens are _____ to engage with the other.

Too often journalists have sharpened divides in the name of drama or __________ or in _______ to our own views. And too often we've gone to each side quoting a ________ voice on one side and a partisan voice on the other with a _______ anecdotal lead and a pithy _____ quote, all of which readers are keen to mine for bias. But our dialogue-based process has a slower pace and a different center. And our work is guided by the principle that dialogue across difference is essential to a functioning democracy, and that journalism and journalists have a ____________ role to play in supporting that.

Solution


  1. readership
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  3. telling
  4. remarkably
  5. partisan
  6. chance
  7. multifaceted
  8. eager
  9. service
  10. organizations

Original Text


So in the two years since that launch — California/Alabama Project — we've gone on to host dialogues and partnerships with media organizations across the country. And they've been about some of our most contentious issues: guns, immigration, race, education. And what we found, remarkably, is that real dialogue is in fact possible. And that when given a chance and structure around doing so, many, not all, but many of our fellow citizens are eager to engage with the other.

Too often journalists have sharpened divides in the name of drama or readership or in service to our own views. And too often we've gone to each side quoting a partisan voice on one side and a partisan voice on the other with a telling anecdotal lead and a pithy final quote, all of which readers are keen to mine for bias. But our dialogue-based process has a slower pace and a different center. And our work is guided by the principle that dialogue across difference is essential to a functioning democracy, and that journalism and journalists have a multifaceted role to play in supporting that.

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