Polish president signs bill putting state media under government control
Source: The Guardian
Senior figures in public radio and TV will be appointed and sacked by treasury minister under new law, which has been condemned by rights groups
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/07/poland-president-signs-bill-putting-state-media-under-government-control
Aren't you glad we live in the land of the free press, and freedom
It's Information Operations 24/7 people.
reddread
(6,896 posts)bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)Here's a thread about IO for everyone, especially English readers in Warsaw and NYC
Chapter 37 of Michael Hastings book "The Operators"...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016130893
reddread
(6,896 posts)im still bent out of shape over earlier transgressions.
Hopefully historians get a clear picture of those responsible
for decades of censorship and misinformation.
assuming survival.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Works for us.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)cracy.
PBS and NPR in Gauleiter WALKER's Wisconsin, along with the RW controlled MSM are a BALL OF CONFUSION by design.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)That sounds very TRUMP-ISH !!!
pampango
(24,692 posts)So now its Poland. For the last five years Hungarys prime minister Viktor Orban has dismantled democratic checks and balances and declared the end of the liberal aspect of liberal democracy. Being rammed through parliament in no time, the attack of Polands Law and Justice party on the countrys Constitutional Court and media bears the hallmarks of an Orban manoeuvre, but it is even more breath-taking, coming within weeks of being elected with 38 percent of votes.
After the Second World War the right wing in Europe broke its link with authoritarian rule, paving the way for stable democratic pluralism in Europe. Hungarys Fidesz and the Polish Law and Justice party are now re-establishing the link.
In the EU a democracy problem in one member state is a democracy problem for all, because member states have votes in legislating for the whole Union. Democratic shortcomings in one member state contaminate the entire system, which is built on the premise of including only functioning democracies. This is why the main remedy to an erosion of democracy in a member state is the suspension of voting rights of that member state in the EU Council according to article 7 of the EU Treaty.
Polands Law and Justice party, in its outright refusal to accept a judgment of the countrys highest court and its transparent attempt to paralyse it, has provided a smoking gun that proves that domestic rule of law does not work any more. When joining the EU, states made a clear choice for pluralistic democracy. They should not be allowed to go back on that obligation.
https://euobserver.com/opinion/131705
Igel
(35,191 posts)Televizija polska gets, wiki tells me, about 30% of the viewing audience, so it's not commensurate with something like executive control over PBS in the US. TP is the public Polish tv media complex.
Don't know radio stats, can't find them quickly enough. But certainly more important than NPR.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Pjmask
(18 posts)For free speech.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)Chapter 21-Omaha
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139460