【英專八級(jí)聽(tīng)力訓(xùn)練】Interview (Test 4-2/2)

Do reporters for newspapers look down on reporters from TV and vice versa? It is quite a different discipline and there is an element of that, both ways. I think a journalist has to compile a much more detailed story because it's going into print whereas TV journalists generally have to fill a couple of minutes and they tend to have a lot of backup with them, they have a team. We think we work harder for our money and we're required to understand the story in greater depth. You have to admire the TV reporters though for their ability to sum something up in such a short time, you tend to think they sit around all day just taking notes but they're not thoughtless when the lights are turned on. They're not just pretty faces after all! How do you cope with deadlines? They are just a normal daily occurrence. You always think you're not going to hit it but you normally do. There is some bothering going on, but you can tell the shouts get louder when you get closer to the deadlines. TV journalists tend to have to do a number of reports during the course of the day whereas we only have to make one edition, quite often a story will change quite dramatically so we might file four different versions of the same story to hit that deadline. Do you think that the press invades the privacy of certain people? Yes, we definitely do. The question is whether that's justified or not. That depends on whose privacy you're invading and why. I personally don't know why we would be taking pictures of people topless on the beach, but if they are celebrities and they have done something of public interest, for example, developed a drug habit and sought treatment for that, then we should report that, as they're happy to take part in the media circus to secure them millions of pounds a year.