Advantages and disadvantages of mass media.

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Advantages and disadvantages of mass media.

Mass media plays a pivotal role in our life. Many people and businesses rely on these
mediums for their day to day transactions. On the flip-side it also bombards us with too
much or unwanted information. This essay will shed a light on various aspects of this
issue.Newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet—including e-mail and blogs—are
significantly influential on our society, especially in affirming attitudes and opinions that
are already established. The news media focus the public’s attention on certain
personalities and issues, leading many people to form opinions about them
Mass media sets the news agenda, which shapes the public's views on what is
newsworthy and important. It is a system used by advertisement agencies and media
outlets, such as television channels and radio stations to "convince" their audiences to do
or act in a certain way. It appeals to the vulnerability of the desired target. For instance
famous person or persons who are recognized, admired by whole communities. These
individuals have the "Power" to convince their followers or fans into taking any kind of
action or decision. Therefore, these famous people usually are linked or work for some
media outlet and are used, to influence the community accordingly.
The media has changed significantly in the past years. Because of the availability of
television and radio all populations and classes have been exposed to various types of
media. The Internet has provided an even newer media resource. The majority of people
live in a very fast paced society. They have very little time for reading and exploring the
truth of information. The producers of media publication are aware of this and use the
media to influence public choice and opinion. The problem lies in that many people are
gullible and society as a whole is easily influenced by the media representations. The
media also responds to public demand and provides the information that the public
craves.
A positive aspect of the media’s bias has been that it has facilitated change in people’s
perception of races in a positive manner, exposed people to other cultures, made people
aware of environmental needs, and the needs of people far away. While there can also
be negative implications the media also has to reflect the public’s point of view. With the
growing representation of Hispanics, African Americans, and other minority groups, the
media is under pressure to present them in a more positive light.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 7, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Newspapers
...light on various aspects of this issue.Newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet—in...
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Line 16, column 11, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'have', 'haven'.
Suggestion: have; haven
...e the community accordingly. The media has changed significantly in the past years...
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Line 22, column 84, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...nfluenced by the media representations. The media also responds to public demand a...
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Line 26, column 21, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a positive manner" with adverb for "positive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...e in people's perception of races in a positive manner, exposed people to other cultures, made...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, if, so, therefore, while, as to, for instance, kind of, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.5418719212 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 6.10837438424 33% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 8.36945812808 287% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 20.9802955665 110% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 31.9359605911 166% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.75862068966 191% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2171.0 1207.87684729 180% => OK
No of words: 401.0 242.827586207 165% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41396508728 5.00649968141 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 3.92707691288 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25664971667 2.71678728327 120% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 139.433497537 158% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.551122194514 0.580463131201 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 688.5 379.143842365 182% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.6157635468 152% => OK
Article: 9.0 1.56157635468 576% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.931034482759 430% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 3.65517241379 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 12.6551724138 166% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.8235700814 50.4703680194 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.380952381 104.977214359 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0952380952 20.9669160288 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 7.25397266985 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 29.0 4.12807881773 703% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.33497536946 75% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 6.9802955665 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 2.75862068966 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 2.91625615764 206% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189878708684 0.242375264174 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0632597733299 0.0925447433944 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0640414579812 0.071462118173 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0554352497093 0.151781067708 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0625166732331 0.0609392437508 103% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 12.6369458128 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.1260098522 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 11.5310837438 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.5 8.32886699507 114% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 55.0591133005 227% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.94827586207 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 79.4444444444 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 71.5 Out of 90
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