News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do you think that there is too much emphasis on bad news these days?
For the last decade the amount of information public consumes from different sources has increased significantly. The content and the final decision regarding the place where the news should be released has always been in the hands of publishers. I am convinced that nowadays we face huge amounts of negative information since the editors stress adverse news to draw audience attention and force people to read and watch, thereby helping the media earn bigger money and flourish.
Journalists play a significant role to keep us updated regarding what is happening in the country and in the world. Since they are facing a severe competition in their professional field most of them ought to use all possible ways to bring their information to the attention. Negative stories always provoke more feelings which means more screen time for correspondents and more fame as well. For example, if someone reads a good article they will simply forget about it after some time. However, if the same person hears the scandal story they will share and discuss in detail what leads to sales and popularity increase of the particular source of information.
Profit maximizing is one of the factors influencing media carefully choose what they need to make public. As far as I concerned most of the news channels and newspapers are independent and owned by private organizations. Editorial chiefs are margin-minded since the financial success and company growth depends totally on them. In this case, the more attention the article can grab the more space or time it will obtain for economic motives.
Political influence can be another factor impacting the decision of the editors. Government pressures the media in distorting the facts and providing information in the way authorities need them. It enables the administration to have control over the population and carry humans’ attention away from other important facts and events. For instance, during the famous protests in Moscow after the presidential elections in 2014 not even one TV channel broadcasted what was happening on the streets. Hence, politicians tried to keep people in the region away from the protests to avoid similar situations there.
To conclude, the editors are influenced by a range of factors to make a decision about news that service their as well as governments’ interests .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, regarding, so, well, for example, for instance, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1979.0 1615.20841683 123% => OK
No of words: 379.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22163588391 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8395151453 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 176.041082164 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598944591029 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 617.4 506.74238477 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.7051068929 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.944444444 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0555555556 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 7.06120827912 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.136293686531 0.244688304435 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0415871236767 0.084324248473 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464040593743 0.0667982634062 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0842119561125 0.151304729494 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0334183546162 0.056905535591 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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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.