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/^t/One thing is certain, massmedia do affect our approach to reality. Though there is a rule in journalism which recquires objectiveness, and in this way a separation of the news from the comments, there are many methods, known by the conversant, how to use the media for achieving some specific purposes. Those ways are often used, either by whole institutions or individual journalists. Attentive viewers, who take everything critically and try to analyse everything they read, hear or see, are well aware of it, and everyday find examples of gentle manipulations. Taking TV newsflashes as an example, when it lies in someone's interest (i.e. in the government's interest) that certain information should pass unnoticed and without unwanted public reaction, it is not visualised and often given at the end. In such a way it succesfully escapes the attention of an average viewer.