Claim: The emergence of the online "blogosphere" has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United Stated.
Reason: When anyone can publish political opinions easily, standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline.
The topic raises a unique problem that has arisen due to the influx of technology in people's houses; that social media and similar outlets of information have diluted the political discourse due to an unfettered rise in communication. On a cursory analysis, this may seem to be the case. But anyone who observes the scenario with a critical eye will realize that these hubs of information have actually improved the political discourse in the country.
The rebuttal can be strengthened by considering the independent YouTube channels such as VICE and Seeker Network. Both of these channels have been able to achieve a more neutral analysis of the current political elections as they do not require substantial funds to run their program. While it is true that a complete disinterest to any political party by a network is difficult to observe, the present situation is far better than the 60s and the 70s, where the sole source of information were either state sponsored news channels or the established news channels.
Speaking of the established news channels, the presence of an ever vigilant social community that readily points out the discrepancies within even the smallest of details have forced them to provide better services. The game of survive or die is doubly true in this fast paced news network. For instance, despite having a strong presence in the United Kingdom, the BBC news channel receives a tepid response in the United States due to the highly competitive occlusions of the American news channels. This scenario would have been unimaginable before the internet era that provides opinions round the clock.
And while it is true that the horde of political opinions will consist of biased and illogical opinions, the filters of social media will ensure that they do not receive relevant exposure. For instance, Reddit, a social media website has a mechanism called as upvotes that determine which post will be displayed at the forefront. Redditors vote on the posts published and only those posts that are cogent, indifferent and relevant will be appreciated. So to claim that the political discourse will be adulterated due to this is a foolish conclusion to make.
In short, an ever vigilant, highly perspicuous user community will ensure that the political discourse maintains, if not supersedes the standards of the previous generation. Moreover, more robust and critical news agencies have arisen because of social media. Regardless of the caliber of the politicians, social media will ensure that only the most beneficial receives the limelight.
Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'for instance', 'in short', 'speaking of', 'such as', 'it is true']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.246666666667 0.240241500013 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.14 0.157235817809 89% => OK
Adjectives: 0.126666666667 0.0880659088768 144% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0422222222222 0.0497285424764 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0133333333333 0.0444667217837 30% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.12 0.12292977631 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0377777777778 0.0406280797675 93% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.79955247023 2.79330140395 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0266666666667 0.030933414821 86% => OK
Particles: 0.00222222222222 0.0016655270985 133% => OK
Determiners: 0.137777777778 0.0997080785238 138% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0244444444444 0.0249443105267 98% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0177777777778 0.0148568991511 120% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2587.0 2732.02544248 95% => OK
No of words: 417.0 452.878318584 92% => OK
Chars per words: 6.20383693046 6.0361032391 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.58838876751 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.407673860911 0.366273622748 111% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.31654676259 0.280924506359 113% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.242206235012 0.200843997647 121% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.15587529976 0.132149295362 118% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79955247023 2.79330140395 100% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 219.290929204 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.532374100719 0.48968727796 109% => OK
Word variations: 60.7039243207 55.4138127331 110% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6194690265 82% => OK
Sentence length: 24.5294117647 23.380412469 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.7322746652 59.4972553346 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.176470588 141.124799967 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5294117647 23.380412469 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.764705882353 0.674092028746 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 56.1840880237 51.4728631049 109% => OK
Elegance: 2.06818181818 1.64882698954 125% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.501309106186 0.391690518653 128% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0941601383276 0.123202303941 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0502056376005 0.077325440228 65% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.605487325619 0.547984918172 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.147282660364 0.149214159877 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.223766401614 0.161403998019 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.094793718946 0.0892212321368 106% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.404049345584 0.385218514788 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0669278946534 0.0692045440612 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.362574519476 0.275328986314 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0398022634716 0.0653680567796 61% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 7.22455752212 55% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 13.5995575221 66% => OK
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 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 to cover all aspects.