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.
Essential part of any lively political system is public critisim for those on power. You cannot talk of democratic system if there is no press that monitor and inform the public of the events and political decisions being made. Usually, corperate media was dominating this arena and have been the main source for information and the main platform for political discourse in the United States. However, recently, with increase use the internet network among Americans, a new platform have emerged. Blogs, social media outlets and streaming website have provided an alternative to the mainstream media, where any individual can express his opinion and disseminate it as he wish. This new development added a new element to the public sphere that will enrich the political arena.
Corperate media, although provide a critical view for many politcians, it is also connected to many political wings in the United States. Hence, it cannot be describe as completely impartial source. Here comes the importance of the internet platforms in providing a voice for the voiceless. This means, that a new independent platform is available to put those in power accountable. In light of recent gun voilence, strong lobbies are preventing actions against putting more restrictions on gun laws, however, ordaniry indviduals used social network to rally in favor of more restrictions, which eventually forced politicans to address this case.
Moreoever, this development have introduced a new concept in journalism, called citizen journalisim. Media outlets cannot send reporter to every single town in the country, so many events go uncovered. Nowadays, the public and the media can follow any news from any location in map on live, because every town has citizens with platforms on the internet. No longer can politcian hide any news from the public.
Of course, these inernet platform have introduced new challanges. Traditional media have editors and riggorous precedure to aprove any material before publishing. This process is not available for the internet platform, which means that a lot of inaccurate reports and materials are being published. But the question remains, are the benefits outweigh the disadvantages? Clearly the answer is yes. Especially when you see how influencial the internet platform in politics. We saw how the Egyptian revolution was started from the internet and was able to oust a 30-year ruler of the country.
Blogs, social media outlets and streaming websites are alternative and additional voice to the mainstream media that can support the progress of the political system. This new development added a new element to the public sphere that will strengthen it rather than weaken it.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 672, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'wishes'.
Suggestion: wishes
...ss his opinion and disseminate it as he wish. This new development added a new eleme...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, then, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 58.6224719101 73% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2291.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 428.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35280373832 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80089711961 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53738317757 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 729.0 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.1545006134 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.4583333333 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8333333333 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.08333333333 5.21951772744 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134585438492 0.243740707755 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0385294782681 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0478414172515 0.0758088955206 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0787582767121 0.150359130593 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.052856025469 0.0667264976115 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.45 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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