Many people feel that media coverage has become increasingly biased today. Why is this? What can be done to fix this problem?
Sample Response
Media has become an indispensable partPart in societyof the community in shaping people’s livesto manage individual lifestyles in a good manner. However, most people believe thatBut the majority deem that broadcast journalism provides misleading informationgives inappropriate information about certain issuesrelated to some issue and is not able to show the actual story behind the coverage. I would like to explainexplicate several factors responsible for this problem in this essay and suggest ways forward.
The first reason is the television rating point.TRP is a measuredevice that indicates a programme’s popularitysignifies or shows success on TV screens. It always attracts a large audiencemassive chunk of individuals to watch its contentwatch any information on a large scale, so that media outletsgeneral media always find sensationalunauthorised topics that fascinate peoplewhich people get fascinated with. As a result, they earn more profit from thisgain more profit with that. For instance, the Indian government imposed a law related to taxes, but the media broadcasttelecasted the news and said the law was in favour of individuals even though they did not show the actual consequences would happen with this law. Apart from that, the media try to hide true information from the community so that situation is not able to control with partial news because people are easily distracted and involved in riots and turmoil, which is harmful to the nation, to cite an example, during the emergency in India when the nation suffered from COVID-19 pandemic media focused to recovery case’s and people moved freely without fear of the virus. As a result, the numberratio of infected people gradually rose to a peakshifted to its peak, and the whole nation suffered from drastic consequences because of the media.
The solution is simple. All we need is awareness and strong willpower among the publicmass and authorities as well. As the first possible solution, the government could take action againsttake some initiative against the false news broadcast by the media. As a result, the tendency of wrong information by media gradually declined and got focused on authorised information. Another feasible solution is that individuals make an effort then seek to know the ground reality of particular information rather than believing in rumours. Last but not least common, people use ample sources such as social media, so people easily follow the trusted channels which spread awareness about correct news in society.
In the end, it can be concluded that media should be banned if they find any illegal activities that disturb the ambience in countries. This may be taken to overcome this problem and stop the fake media before it becomes a menace to mankind.
Why this response received Band 5.5
The response covers both causes and solutions and uses a visible overall structure, with several relevant ideas about commercial pressure, regulation, and individual fact-checking. However, the reasoning is often unclear or weakly connected, especially in the long causes paragraph, while frequent collocation and sentence-control problems reduce precision. Prioritise selecting two clearly distinct causes and matching each to a specific, logically explained solution in shorter, grammatically controlled sentences.
IELTS Writing Criteria Scores
Task Response
Both questions are addressed with relevant causes and remedies, but several explanations and examples are unclear, weakly supported, or only loosely tied to media bias.
Define two precise causes of bias and explain how each proposed measure would directly reduce that cause.
Coherence and Cohesion
Paragraphing separates the main stages of the response, but progression within the causes paragraph is difficult to follow and cohesive phrases are often mechanical.
Organise each body paragraph around one main idea and use shorter links that make the cause-and-effect sequence explicit.
Lexical Resource
The response attempts a fairly broad range of vocabulary, but frequent inappropriate collocations and imprecise word choices sometimes obscure the intended meaning.
Prefer accurate, familiar terms for ratings, misinformation, regulation, and verification instead of forcing less controlled expressions.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Complex structures are attempted frequently, but persistent errors in sentence boundaries, articles, agreement, tense, and punctuation sometimes make ideas difficult to interpret.
Break long sentences into complete clauses and systematically check verb forms, articles, and punctuation for each sentence.
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IELTS Writing Task 2
Many people feel that media coverage has become increasingly biased today. Why is this? What can be done to fix this problem?
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