The monograph attempts to comprehensively study the transformation of mass consciousness under the influence of the media. From a philosophical position, the concepts of television reality and the massization of society in the 19th - first half of the 20th centuries are explored. The reasons for the increase in manipulation of mass consciousness in the conditions of the modern information society, in which information plays a major role, are identified. Particular attention is paid to Russian television - its structure, new media technologies - specific manipulative techniques used in television programs, as well as ways to counter manipulative processes (“counter-suggestion”). Who controls the masses and can television carry out its activities without resorting to manipulation? The author gives answers to these and other questions using the results of his research, as well as summarizing the works of leading foreign and domestic scientists. For philosophers, political scientists, psychologists, cultural experts, journalists, sociologists, students and graduate students, as well as for anyone interested in processes, occurring in the field of communication, including their negative aspects.