Claim: The emergence of the online "blogosphere" has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States.
Reason: When anyone can publish political opinions easily, standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline.
Write a response in which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Democracy can be defined as a form of government of the people, by the people and for the people. With the emergence of people expressing their opinions openly in blogs, it has in a way enhanced the role of the people in the democracy to many folds. It has given them the power to express their opinions and also be cognizant to the opinions of various other people, making them a more aware citizen and critical in the decision making process of the country. Hence, the blogs are more likely to strengthen the quality of political discourse because unlike the media, it is free for any constraint that could thwart the mass from making sensible political decisions.
Before the advent of blogs and various social sites, the scenario after a common man read news was to express his views for or against the issue to his family and friends around him. Even if he wished to convey his thoughts or ideas to a larger mass he was unable to do so which meant it was only a one way communication. With the advent of blogs, the common people are able to opine their opinions more clearly to a wider public and hence making a two way communication. They feel that now able to express their opinions and also read other people's opinion and make better political decisions than ever before.
Media was once believed to possess the power of being a rabble- rouser and thus, had a strong hold on the political decisions of the country. There were many scandals in which media tycoons were caught in scandals which involved huge bribes from certain political leaders to hide certain issues that would affect the image of the party in the eyes of the voters. A survey surmised that people who read a particular newspaper only were more likely to vote for a certain political party and held firm beliefs against the other party. In a way, media could stir an entire pool of people to vote for a certain party by only making them aware about the positive side of the party, in a way tinting the truth. Hence, the proponents of media believe that the blogs will eventually weaken the quality of political discourse. Since people are now exposed to a wide range of opinions and can eventually form their own opinion. And upon once doing that, they also can persuade many others to see the way they perceive the political situation, and thus it can help to strengthen the political discourse of the country by making the democracy work in a more efficient manner.
Journalism is believed to be an art possessed by only the most knowledgeable people, who have a great command over their language skills. The quality of very fine eloquent articles have become rare in this blog era because everyone, even the person who is a novice in a particular language, is able to express his/ her idea. Also, the journalists are liable to some regulations of the company they work for and would in no way write any article that mar the reputation of their company by impairing the truth. While anonymous bloggers can express content which is entirely bogus or at times intended to be gender biased or racially discriminating as they have no threat of ever being identified. Henceforth, in this vast ocean of varied blogs and articles it has become very rare to find an unbiased eloquent piece.
In this era of modernization, the readers have to be wise enough to form one's opinion from a wide range of opinions that he/she is exposed to and decide what is good for the country as a whole before making a decision to vote for a particular party and his/her vote would be pivotal in deciding the government for the coming four years.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'hence', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while', 'as to']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.235294117647 0.240241500013 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.15 0.157235817809 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0985294117647 0.0880659088768 112% => OK
Adverbs: 0.05 0.0497285424764 101% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0411764705882 0.0444667217837 93% => OK
Prepositions: 0.129411764706 0.12292977631 105% => OK
Participles: 0.0426470588235 0.0406280797675 105% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.4619640716 2.79330140395 88% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0411764705882 0.030933414821 133% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.126470588235 0.0997080785238 127% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0161764705882 0.0249443105267 65% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0161764705882 0.0148568991511 109% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3616.0 2732.02544248 132% => OK
No of words: 640.0 452.878318584 141% => OK
Chars per words: 5.65 6.0361032391 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02973371873 4.58838876751 110% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.3296875 0.366273622748 90% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.2203125 0.280924506359 78% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.1375 0.200843997647 68% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0796875 0.132149295362 60% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4619640716 2.79330140395 88% => OK
Unique words: 278.0 219.290929204 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434375 0.48968727796 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 53.235213016 55.4138127331 96% => OK
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6194690265 102% => OK
Sentence length: 30.4761904762 23.380412469 130% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.9145204022 59.4972553346 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 172.19047619 141.124799967 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.4761904762 23.380412469 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.380952380952 0.674092028746 57% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 52.5074404762 51.4728631049 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.68902439024 1.64882698954 102% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.451149447354 0.391690518653 115% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.148784936315 0.123202303941 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0845974689815 0.077325440228 109% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.599254165861 0.547984918172 109% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.159558205747 0.149214159877 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.215801296525 0.161403998019 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120556198325 0.0892212321368 135% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.427885928854 0.385218514788 111% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.01266617313 0.0692045440612 18% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.320422691972 0.275328986314 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119704806279 0.0653680567796 183% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 12.0 7.22455752212 166% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.