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According to the latest statistics an average Pole spends about four hours a day watching TV and during weekends even more. Such high ratings mean that watching TV takes more than twelve years of our life. Mass culture seems to enjoy the "play" of multiplying the varieties of offers. More and more often the public is shocked by some of them. In March 1993 in Liverpool two ten-year-old boys committed the horrific murder of a two-year-old child. The investigation revealed that the juvenile murderers modelled themselves on the film they had seen. Polish children quite often play at being barbarians and bandits. In January 1994 in Chorzow two teenagers wanted to see how a real death looks like. So that, they organized a kind of "crime show". They killed a young boy by pricking his body slowly and carefully, with great precision. Young children, teenagers and adults try to imitate protagonists seen in films or known from comics. Despite what the media "say", things we watch have a harmful influence on us and they create our attitudes. The loads of money spent on advertisements would be the proof of that.