Nowadays, there is a trend that reports of media focus on problems and emergencies rather than positive development. Some people think it is harmful to individuals and to society. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The media outlets of a country are responsible for the keeping the public up to date on current events. Media outlets encompass newspapers, television news channels, radio and in today’s world, even social media falls in this category. The author posits that there is a growing trend of media reports that focuses only on problems and emergencies rather than the positive developments and that some people believe that it is harmful to individuals and to society. While I do not completely disagree with the author’s point of view, I also do not completely agree with it. There are two sides to this argument and I present them in the following paragraphs taking the United States media as an example.
The United States media is not completely free from bias. Every newspaper and television news outlet have political inclinations which drives the way in which they present the news. They are either liberal (left leaning) or conservative (right leaning) media. Some prominent examples of left leaning media are CNN, New York Times and Washington Post. Some prominent examples of right leaning media are Fox News and The Hill.
The presidency of Donald Trump has increased the divide between conservatives and liberals and every issue has become a divisive one, no matter how big or small. The liberal media present their news in such a way that they outline the fallacies of the President, the number of times he has lied to the American public, the way in which he takes political decisions which are meant to improve his businesses, to name a few. They dig up all his scandals and present them to the public. They look at how several members of his administration have failed in their basic duties and compare his term to Obama’s presidency. The only positive from Trump’s presidency so far is the growth in the number of jobs. But the number of times his administration has made mistakes or lied to the public greatly outweighs any good that the administration has done. The way in which he has treated the institution of American democracy has made the Washington Post change their slogan to “Democracy dies in darkness”.
The other side of the coin is the conservative media, who are sycophants of Trump and his presidency. They paint the Democrats in bad light as they oppose every bill that the President tries to pass. Instead of looking at the inherent problems with the current administration, they portray every small bill that is passed as a huge win for Trump. The building of the wall at the Mexican border, the caging of immigrant children, the death of the American education department under Betsy Devos, the impeachment “scam”, the delay in the Coronavirus response, to name a few, have staunch supporters in the conservative media as they often come up with tenuous excuses to shift the blame onto liberal members of the Senate. They do glorify his achievements of creation of thousands of jobs and the overall upliftment of the economy to an excessive extent, when compared to the liberal media.
Social media also plays a huge role in presenting information to the public through sites like Facebook and Twitter. However, the role of Facebook in presenting misinformation has been brought forth in Congress and its ability to create mountains out of molehills in even the smallest partisan issue has caused divisiveness in the country that has never been seen before.
President Trump will not suffer any harm from the way the liberal or the conservative media portrays him. But the ones who suffer the most are the people of the country. The way in which the media presents its news nowadays has not only incensed people but also provided a fuse to those who have extremely biased opinions to act out in public. Partisan opinions that were generally not welcome in the public has become commonplace topics nowadays. In conclusion, I would argue that partisan media presentation, like the one in the United States, does not affect the individuals involved in the news, but affects the general public and society. It is very difficult to reduce this divisiveness because we are living in unprecedented times where democracies can sometimes masquerade as dictatorships. The liberal media’s outrage at the current administration, the conservative media’s effusiveness with the progress of the administration and the amount of misinformation on social media have caused the public to take a stand on various issues based on both information and misinformation.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 291, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'lain'.
Suggestion: lain
...e President, the number of times he has lied to the American public, the way in whic...
^^^^
Line 7, column 55, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
... of the coin is the conservative media, who are sycophants of Trump and his presidency....
^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 617, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...s involved in the news, but affects the general public and society. It is very difficult to re...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, while, even so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 10.4138276553 259% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 22.0 7.30460921844 301% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 51.0 24.0651302605 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 103.0 41.998997996 245% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3766.0 1615.20841683 233% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 747.0 315.596192385 237% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04149933066 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.22793465313 4.20363070211 124% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85126420827 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 342.0 176.041082164 194% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457831325301 0.561755894193 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1192.5 506.74238477 235% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 19.0 2.52805611222 752% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 16.0721442886 193% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.377479092 49.4020404114 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.483870968 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0967741935 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.03225806452 7.06120827912 29% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176259402031 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0476671430337 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0897853091514 0.0667982634062 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.097227643097 0.151304729494 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107614755524 0.056905535591 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 169.0 78.4519038076 215% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 291, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'lain'.
Suggestion: lain
...e President, the number of times he has lied to the American public, the way in whic...
^^^^
Line 7, column 55, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
... of the coin is the conservative media, who are sycophants of Trump and his presidency....
^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 617, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...s involved in the news, but affects the general public and society. It is very difficult to re...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, so, while, even so, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 10.4138276553 259% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 22.0 7.30460921844 301% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 51.0 24.0651302605 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 103.0 41.998997996 245% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3766.0 1615.20841683 233% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 747.0 315.596192385 237% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04149933066 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.22793465313 4.20363070211 124% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85126420827 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 342.0 176.041082164 194% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457831325301 0.561755894193 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1192.5 506.74238477 235% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 19.0 2.52805611222 752% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 16.0721442886 193% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.377479092 49.4020404114 147% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.483870968 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0967741935 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.03225806452 7.06120827912 29% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176259402031 0.244688304435 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0476671430337 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0897853091514 0.0667982634062 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.097227643097 0.151304729494 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107614755524 0.056905535591 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 169.0 78.4519038076 215% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 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.