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/^t/It's common knowledge that the media are extremely effective in moulding public's opinion and setting moral and aesthetic standards. Advertisers delude people with miraculous products. Proprietors of journals include opinion and information sympathetic to their business and personal concerns. In dictatorships and communist countries the party in power suppresses all inconvenient facts and opinions making people misinformed. Although in democratic countries television and radio aren't supposed to take sides and support one political party rather than another, they still influence and manipulate people. For example, when the war broke out in Vietnam it was the press photography and TV reports that had the strongest effect on organising anti-war demonstrations in America. The power of an image is sometimes underestimated but it has much more considerable impact on us than we suppose.