News stories on TV and in newspapers are very often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words. What is your opinion about this?
According to some people, the photos that complement news reports on TV or in newspapers have a greater impact than the stories themselves. I do support this argument.
To begin with, the sense of vision is the strongest of the five senses possessed by humans. Visuals like photos or videos pack a lot of information in very little space. In most cases, without even reading the text, readers can get a decent idea of the news story by simply looking at the pictures. A reporter, with pictorial presentation, can explain a news piece better as the public has some base to understand the reference. For instance, if a journalist covers a live story of a damaged flyover, without showing any visual content it will not be possible to explain the severity of the situation.
Secondly, pictures often act as an evidence in certain circumstances such as in crime reporting. Furthermore, they help spread awareness amongst the common man about a certain gang of criminals who are on the run by projecting, on the TV, any information that is available with the police and the media. Sometimes, beautiful photos help in covering travel stories where the breath-taking landscape talks volumes about the travel destination without which the whole story may not be effective at all. What is more, certain cultures and food can be explained only through the form of photographs. Even the latest fashion cannot be expressed with the help of mere words.
Just as there are two sides to one coin, there may be certain cons to showing images along with the news on the idiot box. This is often the case when crime is being reported and certain distorted pictures of the victim’s dead body are being showcased. Viewers especially adolescents can be extremely disturbed by such visuals.
To conclude, just as every garden has weed, images accompanying news items can have their downside but if used prudently by the media, they can be a powerful tool for imparting information to the public at large
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, for instance, such as, in most cases, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 6.0 24.0651302605 25% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1515.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 309.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90291262136 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70938155695 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.598705501618 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.5420329599 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.214285714 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0714285714 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57142857143 7.06120827912 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.094202922487 0.244688304435 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0300499325508 0.084324248473 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0259676232933 0.0667982634062 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0562694156505 0.151304729494 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0151163230723 0.056905535591 27% => 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: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.4159519038 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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