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TVP does not hide its favoritism of PiS politicians.  The new report leaves no doubts

TVP does not hide its favoritism of PiS politicians. The new report leaves no doubts

Many people do not trust Telewizja Polska, especially the information and journalistic programs it creates. TVN journalists have been calling TVP “government television” for a long time and looking at the latest report of the TVP Information Center, these words seem adequate. We can see in it how much air time is devoted to politicians of the ruling party. We have had this image of public television in Poland for almost eight years.

Joke. 23 of the Broadcasting Act states that public media “give political parties the opportunity to present their position on key public issues.” However, both Polish Television and Polish Radio, since the United Right is in power in Poland, do not take a professional approach to this point of the act. This is confirmed by a recently published report by the TVP Information Center.

Gigantic disproportions in the representation of political options on TVP are the “norm”

Two reports from 2023 have been made available on the national broadcaster’s website, covering the period from January to June. The documents are titled: “Quarterly report on the implementation of the obligations of public radio and television broadcasting units to present the positions of political parties, trade unions and employers’ associations.” The pro-government attitude of TVP is clearly visible from them.

The report’s results were based on programs broadcast on TVP1, TVP2, TVP3 and TVP Info channels. According to these data, politicians of the ruling camp had a huge advantage in the amount of airtime compared to other parties in the first half of the year.

Only in the second quarter of 2023, PiS politicians “presented their position” on public television for approximately 252 hours. The second largest party in the Polish Sejm, the Civic Platform (107 MPs), was represented in the national media for only about 10 hours.

Interestingly, Zbigniew Ziobro’s Sovereign Poland (until May 2023 under the name “Solidarna Polska”), which has 18 deputies in the Sejm, “presented its position” on TVP for over 15 hours. Nowa Lewica participated in the national broadcaster’s programs for 26 hours, PSL for less than 22 hours, and Polska 2050 for only 2 hours and 45 minutes.

This report provides data for the second quarter of this year (April-June 2023). The data for the report from the current – pre-election – quarter will probably prove to be even more devastating. Politicians of the ruling party “present their position” much more often on TVP compared to other political parties, which only reinforces the current disproportion.

Source: Gazeta

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