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/^t/As nearly 90 per cent of any civilized society have television and radio sets able to receive at least several channels, it becomes certain that there is no quicker method of providing the public with the essential pieces of information. The fact that we are able to perceive the reality around us and that of distant places has made us accustom to the sources of this knowledge. Nowadays mass media are no longer regarded as the extraordinary discoveries but rather the way society may acquire the main political, social, economic, religious, and cultural features that are of great importance in any country. Not only do mass media create fundamental basis as far as the education and the improvement are concerned but also they produce various kinds of, so-called, "light entertainment" programmes such as music, sport, or children programmes.