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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/Many people do not realize that the world shown on television is not real. Even the news is not just a matter of what happened on a particular day. Since there are too many events that could be of interest to viewers and so many different perspectives a reporter might take, TV editors have to serve as cultural gatekeepers by determining what fragments of the day's happenings will be aired. Therefore, they are enormously influential in shaping our world-view. An often-heard sentence, "I know it's true/good because I saw it on television" shows how uncritical toward its programs we are. It also means that we are not fully aware we are being manipulated.