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/^t/Not only do ambiguous comments affect our approach to reality but also visual "aids" that crafty publishers or TV producers use with such a mastery. All the visual tricks that flood both press and television serve as eyes-catchers, which in turn play a dominant role while establishing ratings of a given TV program or circulation of a newspaper. A potential reader or viewer, when shown a significant amount of suitably chosen set of pictures, absorbs them before the proper "perusing" an article. The "before picture" intended to facilitate the reading process, evidently shapes understanding of a given text and narrows the area of possible opinions or interpretations. Similarly to appropriately fabricated comments, the photos, pictures or cartoons propose a kind of deformed reality, usually in a highly exaggerated degree. The problem appears to be worse when falsified comments or pictures fall onto the susceptible grounds of not finally moulded child's mind or rebellions soul of an adolescent. Nothing strange that, when being exposed to the above "facilitators" of viewing or reading, the youngsters obtain a false image of the world. The adults should also realise that the effect of this exposure doesn't apply only to the youngsters, as it is popularly believed that constant and massive contact with untruth results in taking it as truth.