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/^t/Many years ago, George Orwell in his book '1984' pictured mass media (especially TV) as a powerful tool of political indoctrination. His characters were surrounded by large TV screens and posters showing their leader. The words 'Big Brother is watching on you' reflected dreadful reality in which people were totally deprived of the right to form and express their own opinions. Mass media were on guard of the only one 'true' ideology. One can say that this extreme situation is a fictitious one, intended to show dangers of a totalitarian state. However, when we take into consideration the political conditions prevailing in East Europe up to 1990s, we soon realise that Orwell's fiction was put into practice. Mass media played then remarkable role in imposing on people the beliefs of the governing (lite. Now we have democracy but politicians endeavour to influence our approach to reality by means of the media.