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/^t/The most obvious argument for the above thesis is just the very presence of mass media in our lives. In the contemporary world, they accompany us from the first moments of our childhood to, frequently, the day when we die. Whether we want it or not, we are constantly being exposed to press, radio and television. This impossibility of avoiding them (we do buy newspapers, cannot go by a newsagent not glancing at the headlines, we listen to radio broadcasts at home or hear them on the underground, we watch 'Wiadomosci', 'Sky Worldwide Report', or 'NBC News Update') influences and shapes our views, opinions, emotions and feelings concerning the world we live in. Mass media (regardless of whether we 'inhale' them more or less consciously) make us think about the messages they carry; we start to formulate judgments and views on the basis of what we have just heard, seen, or read. In this way, our perception of reality is distorted (or maybe enriched?) by the things we learn from mass media.