The article discusses the results of different periods’ (2007–2008 and 2012) research on values significant to people and their expression in the publications of Lithuanian daily papers (“Lietuvos rytas”, “Respublika”, “Lietuvos žinios”). After establishing priority values by the questionnaire method and values‘ expression in daily papers by content analysis method, the interrelations between particular values and between their expression in publications are analysed, and the phenomenon of value negativism is revealed. KEY WORDS: society, values, daily papers, Lithuania