The emergence of the online “blogosphere” and social media has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States. Reason: When anyone can publish political opinions easily, standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline.
Write a response in which you examine your own position on the statement. Explore the extent to which you either agree or disagree with it, and support your reasoning with evidence and/or examples. Be sure to reflect on ways in which the statement might or might not be true, and how this informs your thinking on the subject.
With “Fake News” being broadcast all over the media and the internet- no one knows what’s true any more, and this confusion is harmful to both the news industry and politics. If bloggers, and teens and tweens and any old Joe off the street can publish an opinion, the standards for covering news and politics will continue to decline. And yet, maybe people should be questioning what those standards are, and have become. Is the standard that the truth be told to the people mo matter what? Or is the standard decided by those who are in charge of the narrative? In a time when older, rich, white males are dominating both the political sphere and the news shows, online blogs, social media posts, and YouTube videos are actually strengthening the political discourse, the more opinions, and stories, and personal experiences that are being shared, the more well rounded the People’s view of political issues will be.
The very real, and unfortunate truth is, main stream media isn’t a trust worthy source for news a politics anymore. Each station has a slant. Fox news has a very clear conservative or republican agenda. The station has proven again and again to exagerrate it’s stories, and spread false claims about oposing political parties. And Fox is not alone. MSNBC- the more, “liberal” news station has been accused of doing the very same thing, in order to make the democratic party look more favorable to voters. So if everyone’s got a horse in the political race, and no one is being honest, why not let the people have their opinions and discussions? We might as well listen to our peers and hear what they have to say- because in many cases, because they aren’t being paid by media moguls, perhaps their opinion is the purest truth that can be found in today’s media circus.
The hope is that perhpas, an active online community will spur active discussions and questions and will make the daily consumer of news less complacent. An online community of people not just believing what they see and hear, is can be a good thing. Though certainly, it can be argued that sites like Brite Bart, or movements such as the men who call them selves involuntary celebates or “incels”, or “red pillars” those that believe in conspitacies, will let their voices be heard as well, and these voices could be damaging, and even potentially very dangerous. And yet America was founded on freedom, and freedom of speech has always been a citizin’s right. If Americans are not allowed to publish their opinions and questions and even their dislike of certain politicians, than the country becomes no better than the communist countries it has faught against.
Certainly there is danger in an anything goes internet culture where satire is confused often for real news, but the danger of not having that freedom is even more severe. Any discourse is a healthy discourse. When voices are silenced, and only one narrative is allowed to be heard, than our democracy becomes a dictatorship. People shouldn’t believe everything they read, but they should read all that they can, so we can be a well informed, open minded people.
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- The emergence of the online “blogosphere” and social media has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States. Reason: When anyone can publish political opinions easily, standards for covering news and political topics 75
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Suggestion: themselves
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Suggestion:
... a well informed, open minded people.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, look, may, so, then, well, such as, in many cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 19.5258426966 195% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 39.0 14.8657303371 262% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 58.6224719101 60% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2687.0 2235.4752809 120% => OK
No of words: 535.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02242990654 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80937282943 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79480445812 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538317757009 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 825.3 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 21.0 1.77640449438 1182% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.5009144144 60.3974514979 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.826086957 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2608695652 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.95652173913 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298190116989 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0809385029393 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0697250542751 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188260941398 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0872450964324 0.0667264976115 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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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.