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Apart from strictly scientific knowledge that especially public television promulgates TV can also teach how to live and what to do promoting role models and giving some sort of ethical instruction. Family, school and the church seem to be no longer in authority over the young. Since the power of these social institutions to instill morality during educational processes is questioned more and more strongly, TV becomes naturally a force powerful enough to give moral instruction and educate subtly by posing appropriate role models and setting good examples. But as we know from experience it is all too good to be true.