Poland's public broadcaster TVP this month accused the government's predecessors of having left Poles to fend for themselves during an economic crisis and said their current election programme offered nothing but 'contempt and ridicule'.
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 photoCritics say TVP public broadcaster biased against oppositionPoland has slipped down global media freedom rankings
Media analysts and free speech activists say the difference in tone during that Oct. 1 broadcast is a typical example of how TVP operates - not as the neutral news provider its charter says it should be but as a government mouthpiece. "Public media are paid for with our taxes in order to give citizens access to fair information. And that's particularly important at... election time," said Joanna Krawczyk from the German Marshall Fund, a think-tank.
Asked about such imbalance, a spokesperson for Poland's media regulator KRRiT said in a statement to Reuters: "It should be borne in mind that public media are obliged to present the position of the government and the president on issues important to the country." A CBOS survey conducted in 2021 showed more than three quarters of Poles thought TVP's programmes favoured the ruling party and the government, up from 30% in 2012.Grzegorz Lewandowski, a 50 year-old construction worker from Sochaczew, a town near Warsaw, said his mother watches the news on TVP while his father prefers private broadcasters.
It mentioned a major opposition rally attended by hundreds of thousands of people in central Warsaw only in the 19th minute of its bulletin, and described the event as "10 times smaller than expected".
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