‘Nowadays, news companies spend a lot of money covering international news. However, local news is more relevant to people’s lives and should receive more funding.’
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Nowadays we live in a globalised world which seems to be getting smaller every day. As a consequence, it is not surprising that international news attracts most people’s attention, and that news organisations spend a large part of their budget on this. News stories about things happening on the other side of the world are often dramatic and on a large scale, seeming much more exciting than local news. However, in my opinion, news organisations should also provide enough money to be able to cover local issues thoroughly.
Firstly, apart from occasional holidays, most people spend the majority of their lives living and working in their local community. If there some important change or event, it is more likely to have a direct impact on their day-to-day life. Therefore, it is important for news organisations to be able to provide up -to-the-minute information to local citizens. For example, if there is a large fire in their city, people need to know as soon as possible in order to make precautions.
Furthermore, international news stories are often depressing, full of violence and misery. If people only focus on these large- scale events far away they will feel that the world is a terrible place. On the other hand, if news organisations can provide lots of examples of goodness in their local area, such as people helping each other in various ways, that will surely lift people’s spirits.
That is not to say that news organisations should be forced to cover local news. In most countries, the gathering and broadcasting of news stories exists within a competitive marketplace, and these organisations need to attract advertisers and make a profit. Nevertheless, in my view it would most certainly to improve the quality of people’s lives if there was more coverage of local news stories.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 92, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...epressing, full of violence and misery. If people only focus on these large- scale...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, apart from, for example, such as, in my opinion, in my view, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1533.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09302325581 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00019314838 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.53488372093 0.561755894193 95% => OK
syllable_count: 481.5 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.6451398364 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.5 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0714285714 7.06120827912 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.342855152663 0.244688304435 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125971146025 0.084324248473 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0902142510405 0.0667982634062 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224954993334 0.151304729494 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0839875454081 0.056905535591 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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