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/^t/Television is probably the most influential of the media. It is the only popular medium that can use all the techniques of communication and whose viewers are in the same time readers and listeners. As the most powerful tool, it plays the greatest part in affecting people's perception of the world. Unfortunately, it makes a great contribution to brutalization of manners by showing contemporary movies a great majority of which depicts violence, war, crime and world's injustice. As the biggest and the most powerful one, American television creates images of falsified reality that are adopted or even transplanted into other national cultures. The reckless way of dressing, consumer lifestyles, machoism, feminist movement, the overdose of sex and the omnipresent image of rich, famous and constantly smiling people created by the media constitute a picture of "a better world" which the consumers of mass culture are sold.