“In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any woman or man as a hero. The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished.”
In modern society where media coverage is ubiquitous, there is a claim that no living men or women can be regarded as heroes because their reputations, when subjected to media scrutiny, will eventually be diminished. In my opinion, it is undeniably true that media scrutiny is capable of deteriorating one’s reputation; however, such abilities do not necessarily mean a hero’s positive image will collapse. Even if heroes’ imperfections are revealed, society may still regard living men or women as heroes.
In the first place, no man is perfect and “to err is human”, says Alexander Pope. Therefore, if every aspect of one’s life is exposed to the public by the media, his or her reputation could certainly be compromised. Some of his or her behaviors may not be accepted as the moral standard for a hero. For example, a brave, heroic firefighter who is willing to risk his own life to save others’ might be committing adultery, which, if revealed, would result in his reputation being defamed. Also, the media may exaggerate a hero’s negative side in order to gain more publicity. In such extreme cases, media scrutiny could focus on a hero’s derogatory remarks and bias public opinion towards him or her.
That being said, the argument above assumes that the media will excessively probe into the heroes’ personalities in details and/or focus on the negative. This assumption, however, could be wrong. With regard to the first part, media may not be willing to invest time and resources discovering every negative aspect of a hero’s life due to limited resources and perhaps weak public resonance it can provoke. Furthermore, it would be unfair to assume that every media source is biased in this way. Thanks to the First Amendment, there are many independent media sources in the United States providing information from different angles. Even if politically motivated, it would be almost impossible to require or force all media to dedicate its coverage to a hero’s dark side.
Even if a hero’s reputation is diminished to some extent by media scrutiny, it is still necessary for society to regard him or her as a hero. To understand this claim, we need to revisit the definition of hero. Heroes are those who possess essential qualities which are admired by people. In other words, it is those particular qualities, such as valor, self-sacrifice, and commitment to public interest, that make a man or woman a hero. Therefore, as long as those key qualities are not falsified by the media, heroes can exist despite negativity concerning their personalities. Let’s return to the aforementioned imaginary firefighter who has extramarital affair. If he indeed saves other people’s lives by sacrificing his own in a blaze, it’s not surprising at all that he will still be regarded as a hero. It is the valor and commitment demonstrated through him paying the ultimate price that outweigh the stain on his character and earn him the title of hero.
To summarize, it is true that media scrutiny has the potential to diminish one’s reputation. Because men are inherently imperfect, the media could deliberately focus on the negatives, but this cannot be guaranteed. The media may not necessarily broadcast only negative aspects intended to destroy a hero’s positive image. Even if the media did so, the public would still accept them because they possess key characteristics that define them as heroes.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 453, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...acteristics that define them as heroes.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, for example, such as, in my opinion, in other words, it is true, with regard to, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2886.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 563.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12611012433 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92342380547 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 275.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488454706927 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 945.0 704.065955056 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.10617977528 322% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.2757769074 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.888888889 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8518518519 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.2962962963 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.401653744269 0.243740707755 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110359961754 0.0831039109588 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0633401651937 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238161868444 0.150359130593 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0389728513127 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 100.480337079 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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