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/^t/To recapitulate, although mass media are useful and beneficial for mankind, they can also be dangerous. Whether for or against the purposes mass media are used for, most people should agree that their use need to be controlled by some kind of watchdog body in order to discourage the more blatant cases of manipulating people's brains. The final conclusion one could arrive at is that massmedia affect our reality to a great extent. Although their role is constantly increasing, what we should bear in mind is that we mustn't become slaves to them.