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/^t/The effect of the media can be appreciated by the fact that in many countries freedom of the press is practically abolished. It is not by accident that a coup's first victim is often a television or radio station. Restrictive governments must needs permit only domestic channels. This is unarguable, as many examples testify, but we must ask, "Do mass media shape our approach to reality? If so, how?"