The manner in which the media presents its recipients with political content has a strong impact on knowledge, attitudes, opinions and electoral behavior. The content of the media cannot be a full reflection of political reality, but the way in which the reality presents it may be closer or more distant from the idea of objectivity and neutrality. The category describing the scale of deviation from the idea of a balanced presentation of content is the media political bias. The aim of this article is to present this concept and determine the specific features of media political bias, its main determinants, elements of the media which make us deal with biased content, and the relationship between the concept of media political bias and other selected theoretical concepts regarding media.

Banality of the common good – hermeneutical study

Article is an attempt for the creation a new way of thinking about the common good, which is possible to realize in practice (particularly in view of depleting natural resources). Firstly, author defines terms such as: the good, the community , the common good, indicating a tendency to bipolar thinking about these ideas: relativist and absolutist. The second part consist analysis of these ideas from the one perspective – hermeneutics. In this part „banality” is not a „name” for common good. It is a „name” for the way of thinking (bipolar). In the third thematic sequence, author explain the new way of thinking. From now we have formal and material good defined in political sphere rather than ethics.