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 be better if more good news was reported?

It is true that bad news coverage has become pervasive on all different platforms of media. There are many reasons why people decide to feature these negative information, and it would probably have some positive effects if, in replacement of those bad news, good news gets covered more.

In fact, negative contents tend to receive more central spotlights due to many factors. First of all, delivering bad news often have pernicious impacts on people's emotion including anxiety and depression. If people feel depressed and threatened, they would become more vulnerable and easy to get influenced. Media are thus used as a tool to manipulate people's perspective and guide them in a certain direction that news editors wanted. Besides, shocking news often grasps more attention than mundane information. This would potentially generate better profits from concomitant advertisements featuring during the coverage. Therefore, with this immense benefits, news editors are more inclined to feature bad news.

On top of that, since the frequency of bad news has been significantly accelerated, people are getting immune to the news. This would have numerous drawbacks to human society due to the subsequent byproduct of indifference and ignorance. when people are getting accustomed to the news of Syria's war where bombing and people killed are considered normal, it would belittle human values and drastically turn into such depravity. However, if there is an increased number of good news coverage, it would offer people with several perks. The positiveness from news would restore the hope in humanity and people's belief in a better world. For example, featuring a scientist who has recently discovered the medicine to cure HIV or just simply a kid who extends his hands to help people under poverty would resonate within the community with optimism and positivity.

In conclusion, while many news editors decide to feature negative information on newspapers and televisions because of several reasons, I would argue that with the enhanced coverage of good news, human society would gain more positive effects.

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Average: 8.8 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: When
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, however, if, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, in fact, first of all, it is true, on top of that

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1786.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 331.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39577039275 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76808391999 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.589123867069 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 577.8 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.3735654262 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.625 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6875 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.375 7.06120827912 119% => 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 : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281034415563 0.244688304435 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109065604732 0.084324248473 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0659955311528 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207792115532 0.151304729494 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0348427378807 0.056905535591 61% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.0946893788 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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