Mass media as the element of civil society

At present stage of development in Russia the problems of objective and early informing the citizens about the current processes in society, as well as information open civil society formation are coming to a head in a great extend. Nowadays it is necessary to achieve the admission of the fact, that mass media is the way of information influence, forming a separate entity, which is able to influence both purposefully and spontaneous on the citizens with the help of modern technologies, to form their values, purposes and motives of their behaviour, including those in legal sphere.