Look at the network of the topic and tell your group mates about different kinds of mass media and their role in the society. Supply the necessary information.

II. Comment on the following quotations:

1. What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten and replaced by a new dish (W.H. Auden). 2. No news is good news. No journalist is even better (Nicolas Bently). 3. News is a history shot on the wing (Gene Fowler, Skyline). 4. When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news (Charles Anderson Dana). 5. A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself (Arthur Miller).

6. A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad (A.Camus). 7. I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts (Orson Welles). 8. It isn’t television that wastes time, it’s you (W.H.Auden). 9. Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once (Cyril Connolly).

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