The public is aware of the possibility of biases in the mass media and distrusts the media as too powerful. The body ...

jasonglazer December 22, 2020

Second sentence

Any advice on wordy sentences like the second sentence. Even after reading the explanation I legitimately have no idea what any of the words in the second sentence mean.

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shunhe January 3, 2021

Hi @jasonglazer,

Thanks for the question! I think the secret with long, confusing sentences is to just break them down into their constituent parts that are hopefully more easily understandable. So here, for example, the original second sentence is “the body of information against which the public evaluates the plausibility of each new media report comes, however, from what the public has heard of through the mass media.”

So let’s try to break this down. The public is evaluating new media reports and how believable they are. And there’s a body of information they use to evaluate those reports. And so that body of information? It’s from the mass media itself.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.