Streszczenie
The tendency to mark the truth’s reserve in the mass media, especially in electronic
media, has been one of the qualities of the language of the press in recent years. This is
seen both in the languages with a morphologized imperceptive modality (re-narration +
truth’s reserve), and in the languages that do not have separate grammatical categories to
stipulate truthfulness. Speaking of Slavic languages, the first of these types can be traced
to the Bulgarian language. The Bulgarian linguists were the first to draw attention to the
expansion of the so-called inferential mood in the mass media. The analysis of web portals
shows that the need to shift responsibility for the accuracy of the information provided
is equally widespread in Polish, which uses lexical exponents and paramorphological
constructions for the same purpose.