ER Editor: A twofer from Reuters and RT. Recently, an election was held in Poland where the Law and Justice Party (shorthand: the EU bigwigs hate it because it’s populist and endorses a national identity) lost some of its support, obliging coalition forces led by globalist and former Polish PM Donald Tusk (see featured image) to form a government. So we’ve got woke, pro-EU globalists in charge now. What could go wrong? Well, a lot, that smells of a set-up to us because of its sheer implausibility.
Scenario right now: The globalists in power think public media was too politicized and a ‘threat to democracy’ under the populist Law and Justice party. So in defending democracy, the new coalition government wades in, acting ILLEGALLY to SHUT DOWN public broadcasting. ‘Trust us, we’re the government.’ Poles experienced this under the Communists.
Notice that in the RT report below, it’s the hated Law and Justice party who are the pro-democracy activists, teaching the new government about democracy.
Exciting and crazy times. The greatest show on earth.
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Polish public media chiefs dismissed, news channel stops broadcasting
The logo of TVP Telewizja Polska SA, Polish state television and media outlet, is seen on the roof of the company’s building, as the city skyline is seen in the distance in Warsaw, Poland, September 25, 2023. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
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Critics say that state-run media, in particular 24-hour news channel TVP Info, became an outlet for propaganda during Law and Justice’s (PiS) eight years in office. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s coalition has vowed to create new stations that take a more balanced approach.
On Wednesday the signal of TVP Info disappeared and was replaced by that of the first channel of public television. The same happened to its website.
“The end of TVPiS. TVP Info was turned off,” Civic Platform – the biggest party in the new government – said on social media platform X.
On Tuesday Poland’s new parliament adopted a resolution calling on “all state authorities to immediately take action aimed at restoring constitutional order in terms of citizens’ access to reliable information and the functioning of public media”.
The head of the National Broadcasting Council said the dismissal of public media authorities broke the law.
“Disabling the television signal and the TVP Info websites is an act of lawlessness and recalls the worst times of martial law,” Maciej Swirski added referring to events during the communist era in Poland.
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New Polish government fires state media bosses
Opposition party MPs have occupied the headquarters of Warsaw’s public TV station in protest at sweeping media reforms
RT
The Polish state TV channel TVP went dark on Wednesday morning as Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s new government attempted to intervene in media outlets that critics accused of acting as mouthpieces of the previous administration.
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Former European Council President Tusk’s pro-EU cabinet, which took office last week, said on Wednesday that it had sacked executives from the state-run television station TVP, as well as Polish Radio and the government-run PAP news agency, citing a need to restore the outlets’ impartiality.
Before October’s election, Tusk had said he would need just “24 hours” to “change the system of public media” should he gain office. On Tuesday, Warsaw’s parliament approved a resolution that called on “all state authorities to immediately take action aimed at restoring constitutional order in terms of citizens’ access to reliable information and the functioning of public media.”
New management boards for each entity have been appointed.
Opponents of the swift reforms have said the move provides a foundation for a “dictatorship” to be established in the EU country.
The media sources had been accused by critics, including Tusk, of acting as a propaganda tool of the Law and Justice party (PiS), attacking its political foes and spreading its Euroskeptic views. (ER: yayyy)
The adoption of the resolution led to PiS officials, including its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, staging a sit-in protest at the TVP headquarters in Warsaw on Tuesday.
“There is no democracy without media pluralism or strong anti-government media,” Kaczynski told reporters Tuesday evening. “In Poland, these are the public media.” He added that PiS lawmakers would continue to attend the sit-in in shifts.
“This is clearly an attack on the free media; it is a violation of the law,” former PiS Culture Minister Piotr Glinski said on Wednesday, adding his view that the actions of Tusk’s administration were “illegal.”
The head of Poland’s National Broadcasting Council, Maciej Swirski, a PiS appointee, described the move as “an act of lawlessness [that] recalls the worst times of martial law.”
Meanwhile, the former PiS prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, wrote on social media that the government’s “illegal actions” show Tusk’s government’s intentions to violate the rule of law “at every step.”
“We will not give up,” Morawiecki added. “We will not allow for a dictatorship to be built in Poland.”
Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders wrote in a 2020 assessment of Poland’s state media landscape that “partisan discourse and hate speech are still the rule within [Poland’s] state-owned media, which have been transformed into government propaganda mouthpieces.”
State media is traditionally seen as a vital public tool in Poland. Around one-third of the population relies on it for news and has no access to private broadcasters.
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