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/^t/Undoubtedly, the media are a great transformer of minds. They affect the swing of pendulum, manipulate and after our opinions, preferences and expectations resorting to a variety of expedients: creating a pretence of truth, using fear, pseudo-science, man's desire to be different, and the like. Some journalists tend towards a minimum of truth and a maximum of disinformation; the principle once expressed: "comment is free but facts are sacred", is not so widely recognized. They prowl on fruitful grounds to find anything enthralling for their programmes and articles and manipulate the facts in order to ingratiate themselves with their viewers and readers, as a result, we are stupefied and our views on life are largely distorted.