Claim: The emergence of the online “blogosphere” and social media 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 discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
It is true that the trend of social media over past few decades has risen very fast. People do use it for any purpose, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Effectively, not only political but social environment in the society is also getting affected. Most of the countries have freedom of speech in their basic laws, which allows citizens to freely put forward their views. Nowadays, as social media is easily available to anyone, anywhere people use it as their platform to put forward their opinions on any topic they want. This trend surely affects the news coverage in general as news channels incline towards more trending topics to increase their channel's ratings.
To discuss further, we can consider a recent example of 2016 American election getting affected because of other countries trying to manipulate voters using social media as their platform. Social media is easily available to everyone and anywhere, and most of the times, such platforms does not verify the person who is behind any particular post. Because of this, since last two years, an investigation is going on and it keeps trending for various issues, all the time. As a result, people are more interested in these news, and news channels mostly cover this news instead of covering other more important issues, national or international. In this scenario, it can be clearly said that because of vast use of social media, may be from good intentions or bad intentions but it is affecting current political news coverage in America.
Furthermore, it is acceptable that common public has got a major platform to opine on any issue they feel most important for themselves, many a times the topic any individual is covering is not at all important, but because few people make it a trending topic, it gets picked by news channels. A recent example of this is, one politician, running for office, was told in a rally by the supporters of his rally that his political opponent seems more confident and dashing because of his looks. The other day a video of that politician looking at the photo of his opponent went viral, and eventually news media was covering it as a main topic.
However, social media has not always proved itself responsible for chaotic situations in news coverage, there are examples which shows us, before availability of such platforms, there used to be same level of crimes, only very less number of people used to know it. For example, recently trending Me too movement. The harassment is there in every industry for long period, but because it is easier to put forward your opinion about it, most of the people are coming out and telling their stories, making people aware of such hideous crimes. This has been possible because of availability of social media as a platform. But at the same time, not everyone uses it wisely, which makes its negative effects weigh more if you start comparing it with positive effects.
It is clear that increased use of social media has affected important political news coverage in a negative way. It also can not be denied that a sensible use of social media as a platform can help achieve major goals to a society, but it is near impossible as it is dependent on each and every persons thinking, how he or she is going to use their online platform.
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...art comparing it with positive effects. It is clear that increased use of socia...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, look, may, so, as to, for example, in general, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2727.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 563.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84369449378 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54647341985 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 215.323595506 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495559502664 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 886.5 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.1473821876 60.3974514979 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.857142857 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8095238095 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.09523809524 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170214877075 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0595094709829 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0416263352014 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110660855396 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0310996708719 0.0667264976115 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.09 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.