The Role of Media in Society, Types of Media, and Fake News

Shape opinions

• influence what people think about something.

• have no effect on people's thoughts.

• only affect a small group of individuals.

• are irrelevant in decision-making.

Make headlines

• become an important news story.

• become a minor event.

• be ignored by the media.

• be a local story.

Dig into (a topic)

• to ignore a subject

• to investigate or research deeply

• to summarize information

• to present a superficial overview

Raise awareness

• make people more conscious of an issue.

• ignore the problem at hand.

• create confusion about the issue.

• promote apathy towards the topic.

Tune in

• watch or listen to a program.

• ignore a program.

• create a program.

• review a program.

Keep up with

• to stop learning about something

• to continue to know or learn about something.

• to forget about something

• to ignore something completely

Make up (a story)

• create a true account

• invent something false.

• tell a factual story

• recount a historical event

Get hooked on

• become very interested or addicted to something.

• to be physically attached to an object.

• to be confused about a situation.

• to be uninterested in a topic.

Break the news

• to inform someone about a minor event

• to tell someone important news, often first.

• to keep a secret from someone

• to gossip about someone else's life

Scroll through

• move down a page or feed on a screen.

• to click on a link to open a new page.

• to refresh the current page.

• to zoom in on an image.