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English Reading and Translation Jincao YU How Mass Media Affect Our Perception of Reality? by Robert Sylwester 7. The U.S. Constitution underscores the importance of the open communication of information and opinion in our democratic society by granting considerable self-direction to the various forms of mass media. A marketplace mentality suggests that useful information and opinions will spread, and the useless will disappear. A free-speech society can thus tolerate instances of false information, stupidity, and vulgarity - assuming them to be a temporary irritant. 8. Mass medi