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/^t/Nowadays, whole generations are trapped in the middle of a triangle consisted of television, radio and press. These are the mass media which are the creators of the world, which provide us with its picture: a mixture of admiration and violence, honesty and corruption, love and death, the good and the bad. We are exposed to the opinions and views presented by ubiquitos journalists, which are, in majority of cases exaggerated and irrelevant to status quo. Isn't it stupifying? In the kingdom of television, radio and press a man is not able to differenciate distinctively the border between the truth and the imagined reality. He is not able to protect himself from the flood of western negative norms of behaviour, the flood of films - instructions of killing, stealing, bribing and fighting for a promotion. "Where does it lead to?" - a psychologist may ask - "to frustration, aggresion, irrational fears?". We have not heard about teenage-killers, satanism and sadism before we had admitted "the one-eyed monster" into our homes.