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 be better if more good news was reported?

Task Response

Band 5.0

Coherence and Cohesion

Band 5.0

Lexical Resource

Band 5.5

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Band 5.0

At the present time, editors decide what kind of news should be shown on television and what kind of news should be printed in newspapers and magazines. It doesn’t matter for them what sort of news, bad or good, their sole wish to make sensation even from bad news.