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/^t/Everyday's life is filled with listening to news on the radio, watching news on TV, reading about it in the newspapers, or just hearing it in the shops, on the bus. Those apparently disconnected fragments join together in our mind creating the certain picture of the world around. In fact almost no one thinks about whether those pieces fit the factual situation and do not contradict one another. On the one hand, we are convinced of being able to select among that abundance of news and choose the true one. On the other hand, hearing the same information in the two different news broadcast we become less sure of what is real and what to believe. Finally, after trying to find out the truth we become confused and we cannot get rid of the feeling of being manipulated. As a matter of fact mass media have developed an extremely sophisticated system of informing the society about the latest events. Furthermore, news can be diffused in the way that best suits the interests of the particular group. In other words, everything that accompanies the presentation of the certain information is important, i.e. speakers appearance, his/her gestures and mime as well as the very tone of the speaker's voice. Today's news broadcasts are tightly filled with various reports and announcements. It is not so difficult to make an important information disappear among such abundance of news or help it to become more visible when necessary. There is no doubt that all those factors influence our subconsciousness and greatly contribute to our later attitude towards particular phenomena. They create an artificial world controlled as in Orwell's '1984' by the Big Brother.