New law means journalists report direct to government
Interview by Jane Whyatt, research by Christian SchultA new law signed on 7th January by Polish President Andrzej Duda puts the Treasury Minister in charge of appointing the governing bodies of public service broadcasters TVP and Radio Poland.
KOD Demonstration in Warsaw of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (photo: flickr/Grzegorz Żukowski)
And according to the Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland Jan Dworak, it turns the clock back to the 1980s. In those days Dworak was editor-in-chief of Glos Wolny. He played a big part in Lech Walesa’s Solidarity movement,…