The paper will explain how manipulation affects a person and how his attitudes, opinions and feelings change. What are the types of manipulation, what is the difference between manipulation and persuasion, and what is persuasion and its basic theories. We also touch on whether public relations is a kind of manipulation and how they are generally related? What does it take to be a successful public speaker and can a manipulator become a public speaker? How are messages conveyed among people so that the core of the message is not lost, how to place the message in the human mind and how to spread it among the rest of the audience? The paper also presents the relationship between media and manipulation, types of manipulation in the media and the application of manipulation in the media. How the audience falls under media manipulation and becomes part of the media space. At the end of the paper, a survey with respondents will be presented and the results of the same showing how much respodents know about the topic of manipulation in the media.