Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
It is more important to read or watch news presented by people whose views are different from your own than it is to read or watch news presented by those whose views are similar to your own.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Within our life trajectory, we are always faced with the dilemma of choosing between new reporters who have ideas and beliefs similar to us and those who are out of step with us. Some people may hold the view that they should always listen to similar ideas to reinforce them. However, others may take the opposite opinion and believe that exposure to contrasting ideas can broaden their horizons and gives them the opportunity to think about what is going on around them from other standpoints. I personally incline towards the latter opinion. In the following paragraphs, I will elaborate on my viewpoint through some notable reasons.
My first reason and maybe the most important one is that as I have mentioned, being exposed to diverse and wide perspectives offers us the chance to see different phenomena skeptically. It allows us to suspect what we have believed in, and this feature is especially important when we are concerned about detecting the most appropriate way to behave or carry out things. It frequently happens to me that I had thought that something is true. Nevertheless, it turned out that I was mistaken, and there were better solutions to a problem or better attitudes towards an issue. Thinking skeptically is the first step to find the truth. If we listen to the news which only strengthens our beliefs, we will probably miss the opportunity to follow better roads.
My second reason is that some news agencies may censor parts of the news that contradict and weaken their own beliefs and ideas. It is because they are often sponsored by a particular person or organization that advocates certain beliefs and is reluctant to lay another path for listeners since encouraging ideas and beliefs different from theirs may endanger their power or position. As a result, they strongly prefer to reinforce what they believe in and what they are dedicated to. I think we should be cognizant of the fact that many news are biased and we are supposed to look at them through the lens of incredulity.
Lastly, I think our permanent exposure to the same ideas may pose an acute danger to us, and that is the possibility of the formation of a variety of extreme beliefs in our mind, which are less likely to be changed further in our life; then we are less likely to tolerate people with opinions other than ours and lose the opportunity to live peacefully near other people. We will spoil many friendly relationships and limit our social network if we cannot develop a kind of tolerance for other views. To acquire the ability to tolerate others, we need to have exposure to contrasting ideas.
In summary, based on the aforementioned arguments, I firmly believe that we should listen to news reporters who have ideas and opinions different from what we have. Some reasons, like having the opportunity to think differently and skeptically, gaining the ability to tolerate other people, and avoiding being exposed to biased news, are mentioned above. However, that was like a story in a nutshell. Actually, there are some other reasons and ideas challenging this claim, which are not mentioned above. All in all, I firmly believe that we should not miss the opportunity of exposure to different ideas.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 533, Rule ID: MANY_FEW_UNCOUNTABLE[2]
Message: Use 'much' or 'little' with uncountable nouns.
Suggestion: much; little
...we should be cognizant of the fact that many news are biased and we are supposed to ...
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Line 3, column 533, Rule ID: MANY_NN_U[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun news seems to be uncountable; consider using: 'much news', 'a good deal of news'.
Suggestion: much news; a good deal of news
...we should be cognizant of the fact that many news are biased and we are supposed to look ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, lastly, look, may, nevertheless, second, so, then, as to, i think, in summary, kind of, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 15.1003584229 185% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 13.8261648746 181% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.0286738351 190% => OK
Pronoun: 73.0 43.0788530466 169% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 52.1666666667 148% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2675.0 1977.66487455 135% => OK
No of words: 546.0 407.700716846 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89926739927 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83390555256 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68193724225 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 212.727598566 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479853479853 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 862.2 618.680645161 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 9.59856630824 188% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.0025247511 48.9658058833 149% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.304347826 100.406767564 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7391304348 20.6045352989 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.60869565217 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0889405123396 0.236089414692 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0269203012292 0.076458572812 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0308425050069 0.0737576698707 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0542905234459 0.150856017488 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0211197797179 0.0645574589148 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 11.7677419355 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 10.9000537634 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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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.