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

/^t/The critics accuse the media of imposing unified views on people and depriving us of our independent opinions. Transmitting the same content the media universalize the culture leading to its impoverishment as they make the cultural differences fade away. The rush of information carried by the media causes increasing tiredness, stress and frustration. Fictious pictures capture human imagination covering up the difference between fiction and reality. The most powerful media, using the sound and the picture brush the receiver away from the books and in this way contribute to the rise of the phenomenon of functional illiteracy. Finally, the objectivity of the picture is illusory. Appropriate choice and editing of photos gives the authors the chance to manipulate the audience. Extremal cases show how easy it is to completely distort the reality.