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Since the time mass media, generally understood as newspapers, TV, radio, entered our lives they have played an important role in our society. Why? Let's start with newspapers since printing is the oldest invention among the three ones. Before Gutenberg very few people were literate and few works of art were created, let alone newspapers. The development of printing fostered the flow of information, general education flourish and people started to read and write for a variety of reasons, such as to exchange ideas, information, to learn something or for pleasure. Nowadays at every newsagent we can choose from a wide range of newspapers and magazines; the quality of which, however, differs very much.