Paying more attention to news

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Yes, I think they definitely have.

3:41

I think I probably pay more attention to the news now than I did in the past

3:48

and, for example, I already knew some information about certain topics,

3:55

but now I want to learn even more,

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so I try to pay more attention to things

4:00

that maybe I wasn't as interested in in the past.

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— Mm. — What about you?

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Does working at the BBC mean you pay more attention to the news?

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Well, I used to be a journalist at the BBC,

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so probably I used to pay more attention or follow the news more than I do now,

4:22

because now I make these programmes about English.

4:27

Maybe it's good that you don’t follow the news as much as you did,

4:31

because it's not always good.

4:33

It's not. It's often bad news.

4:41

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we learned during the conversation.

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We had 'follow the news', which means 'to be interested in the news'.

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We used too, and 'too' means 'more than is needed of something',

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so I watch too much news.