... pressure of religion on media and effects of media on religion. The first relationship between religion and media is the negative effects and pressure of religion on media that restricted the freedom of ideas. It can be seen many examples that support this thesis in history and today. In Medieval Europe is one of the best-known and clear example for the pressure of religion in past. In this era, for example, church prevented the new scientific ideas against their religious ideology. As one of the illustration, "Galileo was called before the Inquisition in Rome and forced to take back his statements that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system"(The Age of Enlightenment, 2002). That's why, church controlled mass media and prohibited the publishing from another hand in order to protect its power. Actually, there were not mass media as developed as today's technology like ...

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