The tendency of news reports in the media to focus more on problems and
emergencies than on positive developments is harmful to the individuals and the
society as a whole. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own
knowledge and experience.
It is true that media channels have placed more emphasis on negative rather than positive
content. While the public can reap certain benefits from this phenomenon, I gravitate
towards the idea that this do more harm than good.
The focus on pressing issues and urgent situations can make some contributions to the betterment of society. Firstly, news coverage of emergencies helps citizens to keep abreast of current situations, thus can be pro-active in avoiding them. For example, when being informed in advance about the coming of a storm, the residents of a city can plan to evacuate to a safer place, thus minimizing possible casualties. Secondly, when negative developments make the headlines, this often raises the awareness of the public about the need of changing our society for the better. A telling example is that constant reports on the extinction of rare and precious animals resulting from human activities have incentivized Vietnamese youth to engage in voluntary campaigns to safeguard the nature.
On the other hand, the aforementioned pros are still overshadowed by possible cons. One demerit is that in order to earn profits or boost ratings, some media houses often put out sensational news that can make unwary readers to develop distorted viewpoints about certain events. For instance, Channel 14, a popular news channel in Vietnam, often exaggerate celebrities' scandals or trivia, causing the public to lose trust in the news industry. Furthermore, sometimes these uncertified news can lead to more serious consequences such as social unrest or chaos. In Vietnam in 2017, some traitors abused news channels to broadcast propaganda in order to defeat the Communist Party of Vietnam, throwing the public into a state of panic and fear, which then needed a lot of efforts from the government to pacify.
In conclusion, in my opinion, although the propensity of the news media placing too much emphasis on adverse events or emergencies is beneficial to some extent, the merits of this trend are eclipsed by potential risks.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, thus, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1729.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 329.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25531914894 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81223190617 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.61094224924 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.9711906614 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.0 106.682146367 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3076923077 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.9230769231 7.06120827912 197% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.141213758121 0.244688304435 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0479581082933 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0331706868056 0.0667982634062 50% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.082969238832 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0523932717028 0.056905535591 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.0946893788 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.35 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 78.4519038076 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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