The emergence of the online “blogosphere” and social media has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States.

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The emergence of the online “blogosphere” and social media has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States.

Political information can affect one's lifestyle by a considerable extent, so staying updated it vital for modern life. There is the number of media which can be accessible to remain connected to the world. After the emergence of the internet, access to news has become significantly comfortable. But, that also creates a debate over the quality of the report. Although, reputed publications have the better quality of communication, when we consider the adaptability, access, the speed and freedom of speech, "blogosphere" has way better advantages than its peers.

Traditionally only the reporters collect the news, and the editor selects the most promising news contents from the pile, because of space and monetary concerns. Many times the particular group of people might be lost the news most related to them. Besides, publications do believe in freedom of speech but sometimes to maintain their relations with politicians, they need to go off the record. Which after all damps freedom of speech. Where in free media like blogs and social networking sites, like Twitter, Facebook; People are more open and can hide their own identity if the news is confidential. Although the credibility of news publishing house may be high, if we are getting the same information from multiple blogs then it should be as credible as the news in the newspaper.

Another reason which supports the social media over the newspapers is the accessibility. The internet is way cheaper for its quality and number of services. In the family of four, if people are working in a different domain, they might need related printed media to stay updated, but with the access of internet, they need one internet connection. The Internet provides all the information at easy access to your fingertips. There are multiple options available for selecting suitable news, and furthermore, in the future, it can be changed. So, when it comes to affordability, the internet is way better than printed media.

In addition to that, the delay between getting the news and the occurrence of the event has reduced because of the internet, which has an impact on the quality of the report. Now it became possible to get news at flash speed, whether it be a political event, financial disclosure, celebrity event, science expo, or military mission, any communication can become accessible just in few minutes of the activity. It became easy to get more eyewitnesses now, and even police services can stay updated related criminal issues in town, early access to weather news can help people to make arrangements early, isn't this increase in quality.

The credibility of news depends upon the source, but if there are multiple sources of the same information, then we have to agree on the story. Although the quality of writing might be reduced over the use of the internet, there is an increment in the quality of news. Now opinion polls have become faster and vastly accessible, the comments can easily describe the related events or may suggest some opposite views. There are multiple services available which can summarise the news if one is running out of time to complete the entire article, and if some blog is interesting, another function can find similar news.

In summary, due to the genesis of social media the accessibility, speed, reliability, and affordability of information impacted vastly. The quality of news might not be static as it comes from different sources, but when aggregated it gives far better content which is free from any bias.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 34, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
Political information can affect ones lifestyle by a considerable extent, so ...
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Line 1, column 542, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'bettered', 'welled'.
Suggestion: bettered; welled
...speech, 'blogosphere' has way better advantages than its peers. Tradition...
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Line 3, column 396, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Which” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...icians, they need to go off the record. Which after all damps freedom of speech. Wher...
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Line 7, column 604, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...help people to make arrangements early, isnt this increase in quality. The credib...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, if, may, so, then, after all, in addition, in summary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2966.0 2235.4752809 133% => OK
No of words: 580.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11379310345 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88645819365 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484482758621 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 954.0 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6213446917 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.076923077 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3076923077 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.30769230769 5.21951772744 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.110149149909 0.243740707755 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0342236911135 0.0831039109588 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406629065597 0.0758088955206 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0680775426053 0.150359130593 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0618087992555 0.0667264976115 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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