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 it he better if
more good news was reported?
It has often been said that Good news is bad news because it does not sell
newspapers. A radio station that once decided to present only good news soon
found that it had gone out of business for lack of listeners. Bad news on the other
hand is so common that in order to cope with it, we often simply ignore it. We have
become immune to bad news and the newspapers and radio stations are aware of
this.
While newspapers and TV stations may aim to report world events accurately, be
they natural or human disasters, political events or the horrors of war, it is also
true that their main objective is to sell newspapers and attract listeners and
viewers to their stations. For this reason TV and radio stations attempt to reflect
the flavour of their station by providing news broadcasts tailor-made to suit their
listeners preferences. Programmes specialising in pop music or TV soap operas
focus more on local news, home issues and up-to-date traffic reports. The more
serious stations and newspapers like to provide so called objective news reports
with editorial comment aimed at analysing the situation.
If it is true, then, that newspapers and TV stations are tailoring their news to their
readers and viewers requirements, how can they possibly be reporting real
world events in an honest and objective light? Many radio and TV stations do, in
fact, report items of good news but they no longer call this news. They refer to
these as human interest stories and package them in programmes specialising,
for instance, in consumer affairs or local issues. Good news now comes to us in
the form of documentaries the fight against childrens cancer or AIDS, or the
latest developments in the fight to save the planet from environmental pollution.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Newspapers
...is bad news because it does not sell newspapers. A radio station that once decided to p...
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Suggestion: Found
...ecided to present only good news soon found that it had gone out of business for la...
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Suggestion: Hand
...k of listeners. Bad news on the other hand is so common that in order to cope with...
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Suggestion: This
...apers and radio stations are aware of this. While newspapers and TV stations may...
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Suggestion: Viewers
... newspapers and attract listeners and viewers to their stations. For this reason TV a...
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Suggestion: Listeners
... broadcasts tailor-made to suit their listeners preferences. Programmes specialising in...
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Suggestion: Focus
...lising in pop music or TV soap operas focus more on local news, home issues and up-...
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Suggestion: With
...de so called objective news reports with editorial comment aimed at analysing th...
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Suggestion: World
...w can they possibly be reporting real world events in an honest and objective light...
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun radio seems to be countable; consider using: 'Many radios'.
Suggestion: Many radios
...vents in an honest and objective light? Many radio and TV stations do, in fact, report i...
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Suggestion: Fact
...ht? Many radio and TV stations do, in fact, report items of good news but they no ...
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Suggestion: Latest
...nst childrens cancer or AIDS, or the latest developments in the fight to save the p...
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Message: A determiner is probably missing here: ' the latest'.
Suggestion: the latest
...nst childrens cancer or AIDS, or the latest developments in the fight to save the p...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, then, while, for instance, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 10.4138276553 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1529.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 300.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09666666667 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68851673274 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 439.2 506.74238477 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 53.4713708446 49.4020404114 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.416666667 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08333333333 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 22.0 4.38176352705 502% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 13.0 5.01903807615 259% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => 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: 0.215318505836 0.244688304435 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0984730856607 0.084324248473 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0710839871238 0.0667982634062 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0642096014354 0.151304729494 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.06730561323 0.056905535591 118% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 50.2224549098 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.