In the memorandum, the author has suggested restoring the time devoted to weather and local news to its formal level. The author has come to this conclusion based on the complaints received from various viewers and a decline in local advertisement revenue. Quite convincing though such a statement appears at first glance, closer scrutiny reveals that conclusion lacks crucial support. Before the author's recommendation is accepted, the following assumptions need to be clarified.
Firstly, are the complaints diversified? In other words, it is possible that the complaints are from a single area that is more prone to vandalism and weather issues. For instance, maybe complaints are from a specific region that has a local gang or from an area that has a lot of sanitation issues. In that case, the author's concerns for the complaints are not holistic and thus cannot be used to make a point towards the conclusion.
Secondly, there are several other reasons which are possible for a decline in local advertisement revenue. It is possible that the local advertisers have found a better source of advertisement to promote themselves. For instance, a local newspaper has also started advertisements and businesses are preferring those to target older people. It is also possible that the economy is down and businesses can't afford advertisements on television anymore. In addition to this, now their TV network has the option to target national brands that can compensate for the loss in local revenue. Therefore, if any of the above scenarios are true, the argument does not hold water.
Lastly, the author has not considered anything about the national news viewership. It is possible that the demand for national news is more than the local news. Therefore, restoring time may lead to a decline in the viewership of national news. It is true, the argument is significantly weakened.
In conclusion, the argument is flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to provide explanations to raise concerns and provide more information in a form of statistical data and research study, then it might be possible to evaluate the viability of restoring the time for local and weather news.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 362 350
No. of Characters: 1826 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.362 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.044 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.89 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.1 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.509 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.313 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.54 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 398, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...usion lacks crucial support. Before the authors recommendation is accepted, the followi...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 236, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ts are from a specific region that has a local gang or from an area that has a lo...
^^
Line 5, column 296, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...o started advertisements and businesses are preferring those to target older people. It is als...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 401, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...that the economy is down and businesses cant afford advertisements on television any...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, in other words, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 362.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18508287293 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96962867785 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483425414365 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 594.9 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.8447058993 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.85 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6 5.70786347227 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232243478799 0.218282227539 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0722016268044 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0811209682348 0.0701772020484 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143106745354 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0765711846154 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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