TVE Airs Withdrawn Report After Staff Protest Over Sánchez Interview
TVE is a public TV station in Spain. It made an interview with Pedro Sánchez. He is the leader of Spain.
TVE first took a news report about the interview off the air. This is called a withdrawal. Workers at TVE did not like this.
Workers at TVE started a strong protest. The protest happened at Torrespaña. Torrespaña is the TVE building.
After the protest, TVE changed its mind. This is called a rectification. TVE showed the report again.
The interview talked about Ceuta. Ceuta is a Spanish city in Africa. The journalist who did the interview is named Cintora.
Vocabulary15 words
- interview
- when someone asks questions to a famous or important person
- withdrawal
- taking something away or stopping it
- protest
- when people show they are angry about something
- rectification
- fixing a mistake
- public TV station
- a TV channel that is owned by the government
- broadcaster
- a company that sends out TV or radio programs
- leader
- the person in charge of a country
- journalist
- a person who writes or reports the news
- building
- a place where people work, like an office
- news report
- information about something that happened
- changed its mind
- decided something different
- African city
- a city in Africa
- workers
- people who have jobs at a company
- strong
- very big or powerful
- in Spain
- located in the country of Spain
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1. It withdrew it 2. Pedro Sánchez 3. Because workers protested
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TVE is a public TV station in _____. It made an interview with Pedro Sánchez. He is the _____ of Spain.
TVE first took a news report about the interview off the air. This is called a _____. Workers at TVE did not like this.
Workers at TVE started a strong _____. The protest happened at _____. Torrespaña is the TVE building.
After the protest, TVE changed its mind. This is called a _____. TVE showed the report again.
The interview talked about _____. Ceuta is a Spanish city in Africa. The journalist who did the interview is named _____.
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