Sat Practice Essay

We were given 25 minutes to write an essay in response to a topic that was given to us. The question was; Do newspapers, magazines, radio, movies, the internet, and other media determine what is important to most people?

Newspapers, television, magazines, radio, movies,, the internet and the endless types of media we are exposed to daily play a large part in influencing what is important to most people but don't necessarily dtermine it.
It is not uncommon to hear about the media poisoning the minds of people evrywhere by instilling in them the nedd to be skinny, ot the want to party, smoke, and wear desighner labels. But to say that the media dtermines what is important to the masses is an oversimplification. The media plays off of trends which are determines by the masses of people. They find ingenious ways to market products, brands, and people, for example, using what they know to be true about what is currently popular. They couldn't make people want to be skinny and wear brand names if the want and importance for those thngs wasn't already there. The reason this topic connot be answered by a simple yes or no is because the effect of the media on people and people on the media works somewhat like a circle or chain reaction. Advertisements, news articles, and movies could not be profitable if they weren't being well recieved by most people. That's where advertisement strategy comes in. And consequently s reaction is triggered because people are influenced further by the advertisements, articles, and moves they're surrounded by. Incredibly skinny people wouldn't be placed all over ads if people didn't want to like them,, and people wouldn't want to look like that if they weren't bombarded with advertisements of very skinny people in a glamorous light all the time.
Another reason there's no black and whitet yes or no answer to the ongoing media questions and struggles, is that the masses of people are really made of of many individuals. And what's important to each individual person cannot be determined by anyone or anything but them. There can be heavy influences on the decisions, morals, and what's important to them, such as the media that surrounds them but that by no means is there only influence. Family, traditions, religion, and personal experiences are all other factors that help to determine what's important to a person and in addition to the media they all aid in contributing to what's important to a person.