Summit 1 Video Script
UNIT 9
On-the-Street Interviews: I don’t believe
everything I read . . .
Interviewer: Do you use the Internet at all?
Mauro: Yes I do. Quite a lot, in fact.
Interviewer: Do you use it to gather news, to . . .
like a newspaper, but . . . ?
Mauro: Well, I surf around a lot, actually. I tend to
look for new sites and get information that is
not so common in newspapers, for example.
Interviewer: And do you feel that when you get
information from the Internet, that you can trust
it to be true? Do you feel comfortable that it’s
real?
Mauro: You can never trust information, even from
the newspapers. The newspapers sometimes
print information that is not true for the mere
fact that it comes from sources that are not true.
And the same goes for the Internet.
Maiko: I get news from Internet more than a
newspaper or watching TV. I think it’s, in terms
of speed in how fast it gets to people, I think
Internet is very good. In terms of credibility, I
think, well, I think it’s almost the same thing,
Internet, newspaper, and news on TV.
Summit 1, Second Edition
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Rob: I probably put too much faith in what I read
although I try to use various sources in getting
my news. That’s one way I judge to know if
what I’m reading is . . . is, you know, the truth
or not.
Christiane: I get my news over the Internet every
day. I actually get three different newsletters on
a daily basis. I get one from Austria, I get one
from the USA, and I get one from Great Britain.
So I get international news and thus can also
evaluate which news are really, in the end, the
real news, because I get them from all different
sources.
Lorayn: I don’t believe everything I read, whether
it’s on the Internet or a newspaper or if I listen
to it on TV. I do believe that there are credible
sources out there, and if I’ve heard . . . if I’ve
heard something or read something on the
Internet, if it comes from a credible source, then I
tend to believe it. There’s a lot out there that’s
not too credible. You have to be very careful.
Interviewer: And how do you try to be careful?
Lorayn: If it’s spam e-mail that comes or
something that’s from a source that I don’t
know, I tend not to . . . not to put 100 percent
trust into it. If it comes from the New York Times
or if it comes from a reputable source, I tend to
take that for 100 percent.