Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no specialist knowledge of the
following topic:
News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in
newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do we
become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news was
reported?
You should write at least 250 words.
Use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with
examples and relevant evidence
The news telecasted on television, and printed in daily newspapers is decided by the news editors. Factors such as political inclination, funding, etc., influence these decisions. Such biasedness may result in the manipulation of news and the promotion of bad news. However, it would be for the greater good of society if they report more good news than negative news.
It is a known fact that many politicians and corporates own and fund news channels and other media. Working in the favor of their interests will be at most priority for the operators and going against them might not be allowed. A recent study showed that around 80% of media giants are funded by political parties/corporates in the United States. In the other set of media channels that operate independently with less political influence, the decisions are based on the ideals of the editors.
Dispositions as stated above often result in propagandist news circulation in society. Scientifically, it has been proved that the human brain gets more stimulated by such bad news. Hence, we tend to read or watch such news as opposed to good. In the long run, we get used to such news and would be opaque to positive news. So, to have balanced thinking and to promote unbiased thinking, mainstream media should also focus on reporting good news along with other news.
In conclusion, the content put out by the media companies is likely to be influenced by the funding company, or person resulting in biased and favored news. This often offsets the good content consumed and polarizes the viewers. Therefore, healthy and balanced news is good for a progressive society.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 370, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...port more good news than negative news. It is a known fact that many politicians...
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Line 4, column 302, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...news is good for a progressive society.
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, may, so, therefore, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1367.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 274.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98905109489 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82362193904 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.576642335766 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 424.8 506.74238477 84% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.2100796481 49.4020404114 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.4375 106.682146367 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.125 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25 7.06120827912 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116143745854 0.244688304435 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0450817183376 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0368401943607 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0743703003924 0.151304729494 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425152318144 0.056905535591 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.0946893788 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.4159519038 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 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.