TL;DR - The Donald Tusk coalition Government passed a law which removed all the heads of TVP, the Polish public television broadcaster, Polskie Radio, the public radio broadcaster and the Polish Press Agency under the allegation that they are "propaganda" outlets for the right wing Law and Justice Party. Several TV channels including the news channel and the news bulletins were replaced or taken off air, the latter being replaced with new "depoliticised" and "impartial" news bulletins. A documentary on Polish-Russian relations between 2007 and 2015 was memory holed.
All state owned media is propaganda. The mask slips this time because the left-leaning group has very little time to take full control of that particular asset, so their claims of "impartiality" look extra retarded (but those claims were always retarded).
It also happens in the private sector as well. It's not been too long since Pfizer sponsored a lot of news and current affairs programming on American commercial television. And I won't start with the amount of propaganda on private streaming services.
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TL;DR - The Donald Tusk coalition Government passed a law which removed all the heads of TVP, the Polish public television broadcaster, Polskie Radio, the public radio broadcaster and the Polish Press Agency under the allegation that they are "propaganda" outlets for the right wing Law and Justice Party. Several TV channels including the news channel and the news bulletins were replaced or taken off air, the latter being replaced with new "depoliticised" and "impartial" news bulletins. A documentary on Polish-Russian relations between 2007 and 2015 was memory holed.
All state owned media is propaganda. The mask slips this time because the left-leaning group has very little time to take full control of that particular asset, so their claims of "impartiality" look extra retarded (but those claims were always retarded).
It also happens in the private sector as well. It's not been too long since Pfizer sponsored a lot of news and current affairs programming on American commercial television. And I won't start with the amount of propaganda on private streaming services.