The 20th century´s most incisive change for humanity was television. Events which took place somewhere in the world became real and appreciable through moving pictures. What radio could only trigger by words got a very  new dimension through the TV picture. In every room, in every bar this real world could be received. Noone had to go to the cinema to see the latest [Wochenschau] news. Now the news were up to date and they had a face. Unfortunately, the new medium offers numerous  chances for manipulation, too, which have reached their climax at the outgoing 20th century.

A never ending flood of picture reaches us day by day. Nobody could say nowadays, what is real and what may be fiction.  Not without a reason, very real problems are solved for fictitious people. Since the existence of reality-shows it is nowadays not only quite a problem for young people to distinguish between real and unreal. Television has become that important for us, so that it has got a central role within our living-rooms, nearly to be named a Holy Grail. I even want to go that far to characterize it as some kind of an ersatz religion. Just like the believer trusts the words of the Bible, so do we trust in the words of television.