Rodzina w mass mediach. Opinie studentów Instytutu Nauk o Rodzinie o polskich czasopismach

Abstract

The people who work for the media and also the people who benefit form their work should feel the special responsibility for each media message, especially the one related to the basic community constituted in society by the family. The decree about the means of communicating ideas Inter mirifica, stresses the fact that „in order to use these means properly, there is a special need that the ones who use them know the basis of moral order and introduce them into the life” (nr 4). In order to fulfil this direction of the Second Vatican Council on the one hand a special media education for the family is needed, and on the other the observation and assessment of mass media and the way they treat the family. The article attempts to discuss two questions: the mass media in the family and the family in the mass media. The latter was based on the students’ of The Institute of Family Studies observations. In three successive years (2004-2007) they were forming their opinions on the pro-family or anti-family politics in so called full-colour glossy periodicals: weekly magazines, fortnight magazines or monthly magazines present on Polish market.