Does mass media control people's minds? These days, it is noticeable that mass media play a great role in people's life. People recieve news and learn new information about various political events through the media. It is well-known fact, that in some countries mass media is controlled by large companies and in others by government. Moreover, in different political,economical conflicts or wars independent mass media becomes the first victims, because state's propaganda or company's shareholders try to do anything to prevent expansion of bad news,countries' faults or unprofitable information. From one point of view, people always have own opinion and usually analyse given information. There are a lot of cases, when states with strict censorship couldn't understand how to struggle against people's mind. In particular citizens of Soviet Union didn't believe mass media at all, because the understood that all information was false. You can control what is printed in your newspaper or magazine, but you can not control opinions of your readers. On the other hand, people nowadays don't have enough time to spend long hours for reading different web-sites or watching uninteresting tv programms. There are numerous quantity of television channels and sites to choose from and it is difficult for the most of people to find actual and fair infromation. They more prefer to consume it in the most comfortable way. In my opinion, that is the point where mass media become to control people's minds. They give news and show analytical programms in a very short period of time with simple and easy-understandable bar charts. People stop thinking and just represent given information as own opinion. The only things which can change this situation is explanation for people how important is critical thinking and how to protect from informational wars. That also means that government should support independent mass media.

Describing data.Example 1 The bar chart compares population in urban areas in the whole word and in different parts of the world in the years 1950,2007 and 2030. It can be clearly seen that the percentage of population in urban areas increase steadily all time. In 1950 only 29% of people lived in cities. In contrast, the percentage of population in urban areas at the same period in the North America was very high and was approximately 64%.By 2007 almost half of people in the world lived in cities, however, in Africa the percentage was not similiar because only 37% lived in urban area. It was better than in 1950 but still not enough to attain the world trend. According to the chart, the most significant increase occured in Latin America from 42% in 1950 up to 76% in 2008. In conclusion we can see slight difference between North America with 87% and Latin America with 84% in 2030.