The news media have become too much influence in people lives today and this is a negative development. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The news media undoubtedly have long been a great part of our lives. In my view, contrary to its original objective of " spreading factual news to people", the media nowadays do more harm than good.
Television and the press, whether conventional or online-based, have influenced virtually every aspect of our lives. News can leave audiences with different impressions about life around the world. Via a few news articles, people can learn about how beautiful Japan is in springtime or how lively HongKong is at night. It is also common to find articles on how miserable people are at wars, how bad the living conditions are, or how unstable the political situation is in some certain area, for example, Syria, Pakistan, Iraq etc. Furthermore, too much news coverage of terrorism, wars, killings and racism can be found every new site on the internet, and its impact is so strong that it causes great distress to citizens and can incite violence among many individuals. Besides, our perceptions and perspectives are likely to be manipulated by the news media, for they are our only resource of information. Indeed, we form our opinions about a particular event based on what we gather from media reports, regardless of the degree of authenticity. Distorted news leads to distorted minds, social unrest, unjust judgment and global conflicts; which all take their roots from distorted news.
Notwithstanding, we can not deny the benefits of media news brings. While negative news can generate depression or sense of sorrows, good news can produce contagious positivity in each person, encourage courses of action that can be advantageous to oneself or a whole country. They help people capture the events happening every day on the world and it is no exaggeration to say that the media have become our extended eyes and ears. A day without reading a paper or surfing the internet and we would be completely ignorant of what is happening in the surrounding world.
In conclusion, I believe that the news media has a direct influence on our minds and lives, and it appears to be detrimental to our way of thinking. Therefore, people need to make good judgments over what they read in their daily newspaper.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 203, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'few news'.
Suggestion: few news
...ssions about life around the world. Via a few news articles, people can learn about how be...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, furthermore, if, so, then, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1853.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 369.0 315.596192385 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0216802168 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84274221572 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 176.041082164 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59891598916 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 577.8 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.0765990374 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.8125 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0625 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22383415715 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0727199515789 0.084324248473 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0280205392097 0.0667982634062 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141129577495 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0154092033019 0.056905535591 27% => 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: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 203, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'few news'.
Suggestion: few news
...ssions about life around the world. Via a few news articles, people can learn about how be...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, furthermore, if, so, then, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1853.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 369.0 315.596192385 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0216802168 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84274221572 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 176.041082164 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59891598916 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 577.8 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.0765990374 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.8125 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0625 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.125 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22383415715 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0727199515789 0.084324248473 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0280205392097 0.0667982634062 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141129577495 0.151304729494 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0154092033019 0.056905535591 27% => 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: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => 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.