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 6.5

Coherence and Cohesion

Band 7.0

Lexical Resource

Band 6.5

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Band 6.5

Newspapers and TV channels often consider good news not so good for their business because it does not sell well. A radio station that relies on broadcasting positive news soon finds itself out of business for the lack of listeners.