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/^t/As far as the reliability of media is concerned it is important to say that the freedom of press is essencial if we really want to talk about possible influence the media might have on our approach to reality in the free and civilised world. It is enough to say that during the communist rule the whole media were subjugated and their role was reduced to providing applause to anything 'postitve' from the point of view of the only leading party. There was a very efficient system of censorship that took care of any attempts of serious journalism. It is widely known that every totalitarian rule, should it be communism or nazism, is bound to use restrictions and propaganda in order to prevent any changes and to mould people's minds from the youngest age possible. This is how in an extreme way the media may be affected by the politics of the state. It rises the question whether nowadays, with the so called 'free press', we are given an accurate, unaltered, faithful report of events or are we again misled into believing one or the other political side.