Look up the following words and word combinations in the dictionary, find Russian equivalents. Make up the situations based on the text.

Wrecking havoc, spring into action, newspaper chain, user-generated content, to use message boards, to interact with smb., one-way communication system, to shape the coverage, decline, to be a double-edged sword, to pose tough challenges, mainstream television, to have a profound impact on smb., to capture information, to face a growing pressure, proliferation of ideas

3. Find English equivalents to the following word combinations:

Расширить влияние, обеспечивать общество информацией, укреплять права человека, главный редактор, снижение тиражей, быстрое распространение информации, неправительственные организации, передавать информацию, запустить программу

4. Comment on the following sentences:

a) Providing societies with more information can help strengthen freedom, democracy and human rights.

b) The power of the Internet is increasingly transforming the way the newspapers deliver their product and their relationship with the reader.

c) Now people can participate in our reporting, they can send us questions, they can send us comments, they can help shape our coverage.

d) Such rapid spread of information via the Internet – and also by satellite television - is having a profound impact on societies.

e) The Internet is censored in places like China, and reception of satellite television is banned by repressive countries.

f) This expansion of information delivery is a healthy development because it can help foster democracy.

g) …they must have information, and they must have accurate information.

5. Interpret the underlined parts of the sentences:

a) But with American newspaper circulation declining by as much as two percent a year, the Internet may be a double-edged sword.

b) This is posing some tough challenges.

c) There are also concerns that the quality of the news product may be adversely affected as journalists face growing pressures to rush their material onto websites.

d) The public editor of the New York Times raised this question, wondering whether speed can be balanced with completeness.

e) What is not likely to change is the power of the written word.

f) The Internet gives us other tools to tell those stories but the written word isn’t going away.

g) And as long as this is true, the growing proliferation of ideas and information will continue.