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/^t/On the other hand there are still people who hold that the media do not affect their approach to reality at all or that their newspaper is unbiased. They claim to be fully aware that some newspaper may be politically influenced but they think it is rare. The point they make is that in the era of multimedia and immense technological possibilities to send, receive and verify different items of information it is only slighty probable that a politically influenced editor of a newsapaper would have the nerve to publish false or biased information. Reliability, they say, is what newspapers value the most. In fact they assume the possibility of complete neutrality and competence in rendering events into the language of the press. What follows is that the people who claim their approach to reality to be free from any possible influences generally believe what they are told in the news and this, in the long run, could lead to making no attempts at verifying if by any chance the picture of the world they receive thanks to the media is not distorted.