News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it he better if more good news was reported?

It has often been said that “Good
news
is bad
news
” because it does not sell
newspapers
. A
radio
station that once decided to present only good
news
soon found that it had gone out of business for lack of listeners. Bad
news
on the other hand is so common that in order to cope with it, we often simply ignore it. We have become immune to bad
news
and the
newspapers
and
radio
stations
are aware of
this
.
While
newspapers
and
TV
stations
may aim to report world events accurately, be they natural or human disasters, political events or the horrors of war, it is
also
true that their main objective is to sell
newspapers
and attract listeners and viewers to their
stations
.
For
this
reason
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TV
and
radio
stations
attempt to reflect the flavour of their station by providing
news
broadcasts tailor-made to suit their listeners’ preferences. Programmes specialising in pop music or
TV
soap operas focus more on local
news
, home issues and up-to-date traffic reports. The more serious
stations
and
newspapers
like to provide “
so called
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” objective
news
reports with editorial
comment
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aimed at analysing the situation. If it is true,
then
, that
newspapers
and
TV
stations
are tailoring their
news
to their readers’ and viewers’ requirements, how can they possibly be reporting
real world
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events in an honest and objective light? Many
radio
and
TV
stations
do, in fact, report items of good
news
but they no longer call
this
news
. They refer to these as human interest stories and package them in programmes specialising,
for instance
, in consumer affairs or local issues. Good
news
now comes to us in the form of documentaries
the
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fight against children’s cancer or AIDS, or the latest developments in the fight to save the planet from environmental pollution.
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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Demographics
  • Engagement
  • Relevance
  • Urgency
  • Natural disasters
  • Political upheavals
  • Public health concerns
  • Advertising revenue
  • Sponsorship deals
  • Market competition
  • Editorial policies
  • Censorship
  • Newsworthy
  • Desensitization
  • Bad news fatigue
  • Negativity bias
  • Balanced view
  • Social media
  • Viral content
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