This argument hinges on many asumptions. First of all, it assumes that complaints which have been received are a fair representation of the general population which watches the late-night news programs. It might be the case that a particular segment of the society does not like the reduction in coverage of weather and local news. To counter this, a proper survey with proper random sample of viewers should be taken and the survey should be conducted by an unbiased agency. Secondly the complaints does not necessarily equate to decline in viewership. It might be the case that more coverage of national news bring in a whole newer set of audiences thereby compensating the complaining viewers and in fact it might even result in an increased viewership.
Also the argument hinges on the fact that advertisers are cancelling their contracts with the news channels because of reduction in time of local news and weather news. There can be many other reasons for their cancellation, including many internal and external factors factors like their marketing budget is reduced, some of the companies going bankrupt, the market is declining, the companies focusing their attention on other forms of social outreach, or shifting their attention to some other areas etc. Also these companies might have some biased understanding that reduction in local news and weather news time leads to decline in viewership. To counter this, a market analysis of these companies' buyers and theer viewership of the late night news show can be conducted by some independent agency.
There can also be the case that local agencies might themselves be putting in those negative complaints as part of their own propaganda. It might be the case that these local agencies might be influencing the local events and they want that to be highlighted. For example, an increase in burglary will affect the sales of the home security solutions business and hence they might be involved in some burglary propaganda to boost up their sales. If the news show highlight the incidents of increase in local burglary, then the company is in indirectly benefited without any direct advertising.
The argument also assumes that reduction in local and weather news will lead to further loss in company's advertising clients and revenues. That might not be the case since the loss in number of clients is not directly linear with the passage of time. It might be the case that those clients who have their own motives might have left and others won't. Also more emphasis on the national news might bring on a whole set of new clients and whole set of new viewership which may further lead to an increase in advertising revenues.
Thus without the proper resolution and analysis of the above points it is not prudent to come to the cconclusion given in the argument. A proper survey regarding all the points and proper evidence is the only way
- GRE Argument The following is a memorandum from the business manager of a television station quot Over the past year our late night news program has devoted increased time to national news and less time to weather and local news During this period mo 75
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 487 350
No. of Characters: 2385 1500
No. of Different Words: 202 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.698 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.897 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.597 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 130 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.056 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.748 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.568 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...n result in an increased viewership. Also the argument hinges on the fact that ad...
^^^^
Line 3, column 263, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: factors
...n, including many internal and external factors factors like their marketing budget is reduced,...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 319, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...like their marketing budget is reduced, some of the companies going bankrupt, the market is...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 352, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...otives might have left and others wont. Also more emphasis on the national news migh...
^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...an increase in advertising revenues. Thus without the proper resolution and analy...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for example, in fact, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2425.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 486.0 441.139720559 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98971193416 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69525374022 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66052247127 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.421810699588 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 750.6 705.55239521 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.5567032884 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.25 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.199443354787 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0780895087078 0.0743258471296 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.077774955664 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11115426661 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0641106075609 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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