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/^t/As far as political influences are concerned most people in Poland would agree that Gazeta Wyborcza and Trybuna are politically biased so they report the same events in a relatively different way. If we adopt one or the other point of view we are no longer objective, since the newspapers mentioned earlier affect our approach to the political reality, or in other words our approach to reality is affected inasmuch as we believe that the reports presented are unmediated truth. As the argument goes further it is advisable to say that real events are subject to selection, so that is why newspapers vary in the content and that the very process of selection may be politically or regionally biased. Apart from that the mere fact of existance of the process we can draw a conclusion that the view of the world we receive is only partial and that we cannot fully rely on it.