Nowadays, there is a trend that reports of media focus on problems and emergencies rather than positive development. Some people think it is harmful to individuals and to society. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Nowadays, there is a trend that reports of media focus on problems and emergencies rather than positive development. Some people think it is harmful to individuals and to society. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It is true that news coverage is currently focusing on challenging and severe issues rather than positive modification. While I accept that this tendency may be detrimental, I believe that this also exerts positive impacts on society.

On the one hand, a number of consequences are foreseen when front page headlines are made by negative news. Firstly, it may enormously affect individuals’ mental health. Indeed, a long exposure to bad stories carried by the media is reported to be the major contributing factor to a huge number of mental health problems, like insomnia, according to a recent study. Secondly, mainly depicting problems and emergencies, the editorial policy is more likely to provide citizens with a lack of opportunities to see the big picture. As a consequence, this may contributes to antisocial behaviors, or shaken believes on the order of the law and the government, which is considered to threat social fabrics.

On the other hand, I concur with the view that the above tendency is also beneficial. Specifically, since these negative headlines are reliable news rather than products of yellow journalism, people reading them are warned against real risks and dangers that they may face in their daily life. As a result, they are more likely to be wary of these threats, as well as equip themselves with essential measures to prevent them. Secondly, negative news also play an important role in exerting pressure on the government’s decision-making. For example, articles about severe environmental degradation are effective tools, urging the authority to prioritize its expenditure on alleviating ecological problems rather than other unreasonable issues.

Briefly, it seems to me that negative news coverage has a double-edged impacts on residents.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Suggestion: impact
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...as a double-edged impacts on residents.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, briefly, but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, while, for example, as a result, as well as, it is true, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1517.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 279.0 315.596192385 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43727598566 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.08696624509 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1917195444 2.80592935109 114% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.620071684588 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.4912697262 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.692307692 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4615384615 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3076923077 7.06120827912 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.108210867624 0.244688304435 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0342972044048 0.084324248473 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0404623020264 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0612013806552 0.151304729494 40% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0470673934177 0.056905535591 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 13.0946893788 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.88 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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