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hello welcome to easy english

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so today i want to know how brits

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consume news where they go to for news

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and how much of the news they actually

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trust here we go

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how do you consume news uh

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may well various ways but mainly through

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apps at the moment

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so like the guardian

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app um so just look at that daily

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also just a lazy way of looking is

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google google app news

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if i can if it's on i'd watch the news

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mainly like bbc news or

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the sort of um

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the morning telly programs if if i'm

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around home at that time sort of good

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morning britain and that kind of thing

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ah right soon um but my other sources

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are really mainly talking to family

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members and having discussions about

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what's going on what's what's happening

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and their opinions about it

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um so i try not to watch too much news

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because it can be

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all-consuming and

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um

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very um

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monopoly monopoly

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monopolize your mind in a way and take

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over so i try not to watch too much

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how do you consume it yeah we watch and

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listen yeah watch listen

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and uh what sources do you go to

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we normally watch bbc one

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and the news channel on bbc2 yeah bbc2

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and sky

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and sky news sometimes yeah sky news

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first of all first off

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uh

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we would listen to radio 4 of a morning

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catch the news there for a couple of

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hours

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i will also go on the web that will

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again be bbc

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uh we have lived and worked overseas so

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i'm also a great fan of world service i

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think that's very informative high

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quality and diverse attitudes and

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perspectives how do you consume news

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okay so the main way i consume

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news is via my mobile phone okay via an

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app

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yeah

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the guardian app really is is the main

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uh one i use and i guess i try and

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go

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to there once a day i sort of try and

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make a habit of it going there oh on

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their website on onto the app tv and

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newspaper

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okay

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how often

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every day every day sometimes i watch

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the news

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on tv

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two three times a day oh right okay

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and uh what um

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uh

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which companies specifically if you know

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what you mean

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sky sky and they have this like rolling

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news channel on the tv that's right yes

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and then your paper and then what what

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newspapers do you go to

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i read the times but only because i get

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it free

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because my next-door new neighbor gives

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me

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um the copy from the day before

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why do you go to bbc and sky

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is it just because of the ease because

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they're so available or is there a

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certain reason

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sometimes it's not the news isn't on bbc

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one and we want to if we want to watch

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you can go sky and they have it on

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pretty much all day long that's right

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and you can get the latest can't you you

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watch or listen to a lot of the bbc

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yes with the world service yeah and

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radio for correct uh is that is there a

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reason for that is it easy we have no

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television

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haven't done for decades wow therefore

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and that this is something i believe as

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well

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if you have a moving image in front of

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you you don't often give it a lot of

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attention from the audio perspective so

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half the time

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people say an awful lot of rubbish

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whilst people are looking at them

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and if you listen to it with your eyes

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closed

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say

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the box

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yeah you're cutting through the bs yeah

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interesting so specifically why do you

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ch

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rather than just eat from ease is there

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a reason why you choose sky news as

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opposed to bbc news maybe yes

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okay i dislike the bbc

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right and all they stand for and the

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license fees that they are getting

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off other channels backs

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if you understand what i mean yeah yeah

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i think i do

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go into it just in case i mean i mean i

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can't

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i can't watch i'm not allowed

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by the license

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laws

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to

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to watch any live tv

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at all

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if i don't have a license fee

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so

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the license fee goes solely to the bbc

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and that is totally unfair

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and it's called

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free view

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but it's not free you have to pay a

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license for it right the license

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is a very small amount yeah

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it doesn't bother me but it's the

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principle of it and i object to it

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in terms of

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trust because it seems to be a big thing

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with especially with big meat like news

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medias

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uh how do you sort of decipher through

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what you can and can't trust

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i think

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where it's coming from like i trust the

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guardian

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when it's not an opinion kind of piece

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yeah i don't so much buy into their

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bits they're obviously biased

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you know like but it's all biased but if

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it's just something factual and i think

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i would trust that you trust the bbc as

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well

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but

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there's definitely bias in all of them

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and then um to go back to the bbc thing

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do you trust the bbc as a whole not

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necessarily um i

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when i'm interested in a subject yeah i

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will use the internet to investigate

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further nice and there's an awful lot of

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information out there at the moment you

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have to be careful

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uh admittedly you

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will

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accept what you

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are happy to hear

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and you'll say well i'm not sure about

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that you know he's off the deep end or

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what have you but um no on subject

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matter that i enjoy feel is important

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etc i go much much farther than straight

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journalism from the news perspective

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why the guardian um well i've been led

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to believe that it is fairly well

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trustworthy in terms of its uh

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you know it's it's news that it's

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putting out there

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also the fact that it's been sort of

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built up on a model of

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allowing uh journalists and content

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providers to

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sort of quite easily contribute

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to to that sort of you know media um

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publisher or if you like publisher of

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media the guardian how much do you trust

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the news this is a big thing about how

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much can you believe what your

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retirement well

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that is a difficult question isn't it

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you've got to um you've got to use your

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own judgment i think yeah and

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i mean how do you judge politicians you

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know

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oh

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no no no i don't trust a lot of it

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because i feel like we're told what we

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need to be told

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um

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and there's lots of influences behind

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media

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um to tell us what we what they want us

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to hear yeah yeah that's how i feel

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about it anyway

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uh you know you're probably right i

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think

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especially with sky they probably have

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some sponsors yeah exactly and they have

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to

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yeah and a lot of the the people that

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run these companies have shares in

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certain things okay so you're very aware

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of this when you're watching the news

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yeah and so for instance the um the

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whole petrol situation yeah i think

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you know if um the the news kind of the

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newspapers

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dictated that a lot and scare-mongered

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people into going to the petrol station

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yeah and

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have they not done that people wouldn't

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have known to do that can you give us

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like a really just like brief

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like like you're a newscaster what was

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like what was that kind of situation

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that happened yeah can you explain what

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happened with this the petrol shop um

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well i think that um

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i think that in the morning the

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newspaper is sending out a message that

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you should go to the petrol station and

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fill up your tanks before it all runs

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out basically made people scared

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especially a certain generation of

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people maybe that read the newspaper all

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the time and um listen to that sort of

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news and they they ran to the petrol

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station

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and and now that and then the petrol

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diesel prices went up

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um and so

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people that maybe were in charge of

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those newspapers

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have shares in those sort of things and

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up the price of things and it was all

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done for a reason because had it not

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been for that reason people wouldn't

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have gone out and

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and done it and maybe those newspapers

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would have got fines because they

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shouldn't have scared people like that

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that's really nice uh topic you bring

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out actually because that's perfect

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reason why i'm kind of asking about news

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because they kind of created almost like

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a self-fulfilling clay news story yeah

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we've run out of petrol and they

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actually did

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yeah yeah yeah exactly exactly they

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instigated it they started the ball

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rolling and they made the problem that

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wasn't the problem in the first place

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below your

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thoughts about the news and we'll see

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you next week

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bye

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