The organization structure of this article is from the most important information to the least important information. The tone of this passage sounds like the author was very interested in what she was talking about. The author seemed like she agreed with the information about that television makes lonely people less lonely. She put more information about the positive side and just two sentences about the negative side. The article is about that scientists think that watching television makes lonely people feel less lonely. Psychologist have the idea of “social surrogacy” to explain that television can take up the same role as friends and family. In a study, psychologist found out that lonely people are more likely to watch their favorite tv show when they’re lonely, and they feel less lonely during the show. Scientists think that lonely people are most likely to enjoy positive tv shows. If you go online and read comments of tv shows, that people comment “worst show ever” negative comments like that, are probably satisfied with their life. Lonely people might have better connection with tv show characters or tv shows then people that already have a lot of people in their life.
I think that the article was very interesting. I never thought that television can make people less lonely. But I honestly don’t think television can have the same role as family. It can probably have the same role as friends I guess. Reading this article might make lonely people consider watching tv when they’re lonely.
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I'm not entirely convinced that the final details are least important so much as most specific. "Interested" is an incomplete description of the tone. Perhaps "favorable" fits with your perception of the bias toward the positive better. Good details and inferences too.
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