"The media (books, film, music, television, for example) tend to create rather than reflect the values of a society."

　　"The media tend to create rather than reflect the values of a society", is true because society allow the media to pusrue this in such a way.

　　The American culture as a whole lives through the pulse of the media world and is enthralled by movies, lyrics and film. Because of the nature by which our society is dependant on the media, the media is able to create any senses of values adaptable by our society.

　　This is not to say that the media is solely responsible for the values of American culture, however, our society makes this creation possible. Although there are many who will disagree with the medias portrayal of many issues, our society as a whole fuels the fire to which the media thrives on. For the most part, books, films and music are produced to sell and the media knows to which audience they are targetting.

　　The way in which a culture enable the media to create it's values, ultimately reflects the values of a society.

　　Comments:

　　This is a seriously flawed response to the topic because the reasoning is weak and the ideas are unclear.

　　The writer's position on the issue seems clear enough, but the paper presents few reasons to support that position. And even those reasons are not explained clearly. For example, the writer often refers to the means by which the media influence society (e.g., "such a way," "the nature by which," and "the way in which") but fails to explain what those ideas mean or why they are important.

　　Problems in word choice frequently create confusion. For example, these could be interesting ideas if they were expressed clearly: "our society as a whole fuels the fire to which the media thrives on" and "the media is able to create any senses of values adaptable by our society."

　　Also, many basic errors affect meaning throughout the paper: subject-verb agreement (first and last paragraphs), comma splice (third paragraph), "medias'" for "media's" (third paragraph), and "it's" for "its" (last paragraph).

　　The lack of clear reasons, combined with serious error in language use, keep this essay at the 2 score level.