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/^t/The appalling images of violence TV broadcasts are only part of the issue. The role models television creates, apparently innocent and inspiring, are also problematical. They all are meticulously moulded according to the ideology of all-present mass culture and consumerism. Advocating extravagant consumption and easy existence mass culture promoted on TV pervades every aspect of the contemporary life posing new moral standards. At the same time tradition and firm moral standards become relegated to the margins as it is simply difficult to live by them. Traditional family ties are loosened and it is television that stands in for career-oriented parents who are permanently absent in the lives of their children.