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/^t/Television may be a splendid medium of communication, but it prevents us from communicating with each other, subordinating us to the two most primitive media of communication: pictures and the spoken word. On the other hand our vocabulary and knowledge about the world would have been very poor and plain if there had not been mass media. These are the TV and radio programmes or articles which are the basis for meetings, further discussions and exchanges of different opinions. Fortunately we become aware how totally irrelevant mass media are to real living when we spend a holiday by the sea or in the mountains, far away from civilisation. In quiet, natural surroundings, we quickly discover how little we miss the hypnotic tyranny of "King Mass Media".