Some people think that the purpose of TV news programs is to entertain viewers. Others believe that news programs should be educational and informative. What do you think the purpose of TV news programs is? Support your opinion with reasons and examples.
Opinions differ greatly as to whether the role of TV news programs should be providing recreation or educational information. Although including entertaining factors can be justifiable, I believe that broadcasters should incorporate educational elements in their news programs.
On one hand, recreational factors in news broadcasts facilitate rating and audience engagement. Admittedly, programs that are entertaining allow viewers to ease stress while news that aim at hard topics can generate negative emotions thus increasing the pressure that viewers may bear. Since viewers enjoy how refreshing entertainment programs are, they are more likely to engage with those programs, consequently, raising the programs' ratings. This will allow broadcasters to gain an advantage over other programs like political or international news broadcasts.
On the other hand, news programs should be produced as a means of enhancing viewers' knowledge. First of all, the amount of time that people watch TV more worthwhile if they can accumulate educational information. Although entertaining news programs can be a means of reducing stress, the information acquired from them fail to be useful in everyday life. By contrast, educational news broadcasts like those of BBC or CNN can keep viewers updated with current affairs or practical scientific information. This can enlarge viewers' scope about life, especially with young learners who can utilize the above information for their schoolwork and provide an impetus for them to learn outside the coursebooks.
In conclusion, people think that entertaining news programs can attract a greater number of viewers, thereby facilitating their ratings. However, these programs should be aimed at providing valuable educational information to encourage everybody to learn.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, first, however, if, may, thus, while, as to, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1548.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 265.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.84150943396 5.12529762239 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11720498077 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.588679245283 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 468.0 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.4265533363 49.4020404114 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.076923077 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3846153846 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.07692307692 7.06120827912 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.418373574281 0.244688304435 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.166240055254 0.084324248473 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0765117245476 0.0667982634062 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.283697643606 0.151304729494 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266748673603 0.056905535591 47% => 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: 16.3 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 50.2224549098 68% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.59 12.4159519038 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 10.7795591182 158% => 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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