The National Electoral Commission after counting 91.28 percent. votes states that in the last election the PiS party obtained 36.35 percent. votes, KO – 29.75 percent, Trzecia Droga – 14.47 percent, Left – 8.41 percent, and Confederation – 7.21 percent. Opposition voters are celebrating the end of Law and Justice’s rule because, in terms of seats, the party will not be able to form a majority government. In the case of a coalition with the Confederation, there is still no chance of gaining an advantage in the Sejm. The other three parties that crossed the electoral threshold they declare that they will not break from previous arrangements and will form a coalition.
New government, new public television. How will TVP change when the opposition takes power?
This is also the balance of power big changes in public television. In recent years, state media have been identified as a propaganda tool in the hands of those in power. Donald Tusk declared that he would change this immediately after taking power.
“Why did Tusk say that he had the tools to clear up the situation ‘overnight’? Well, PiS gave him these tools. He ensured comfortable TV control, but he did not change these regulations back, so the legislative state remained as it was. Each new government, stepping into the shoes of its predecessors, may be tempted to take advantage of this opportunity and actually control the media itself without any problems,” explains a media expert, specialist in the rhetoric of journalism and author of analyzes of propaganda mechanisms in “Wiadomości” in an interview withkultura.gazeta.pl – Dr. Krzysztof Grzegorzewski from the University of Łódź.
However, assuming that the new government does not succumb to temptation and wants to create trustworthy public media, it will face big challenges. According to Grzegorzewski, the new government should not give up subsidies from the state budget. “You can deprive them, but it would be a shot in the foot and a big mistake, of the huge government subsidies that television now receives, namely the PLN 2.7 billion from the budget. Certainly, the new government will have to do something to prove that these funds “They are well managed,” the media expert emphasizes.
Grzegorzewski emphasizes that the television license fee should also be abolished and money from taxes should be used, but this budget must be “open and transparent.” “This must be done because in Poland there is no culture of paying a license fee, such as we observe in Germany or other Western European countries, where the public television budget is based on a license fee. However, we should remember where this willingness to pay comes from. In Germany, these the money is used differently, public media are very solid,” our interlocutor emphasizes.
“Public television is a breeding ground for intellectual trash and crap”
At the same time, Grzegorzewski adds that public media should be able to make a living from commercial content, but their scope should be clearly limited. “There cannot be a situation in which public media broadcast advertisements and let Zenek Martyniuk into the philharmonic hall. Let public television broadcast popular music, of course, but at some level. At this point, it looks like public television is a breeding ground for intellectual trash and crap, crap. Something needs to be done to restore the quality of this medium,” he points out.
According to the expert, the public media schedule must also change. “Programs now associated with government propaganda should disappear from the air immediately,” Grzegorzewski believes. However, there is a problem with “Wiadomości” – the service cannot be taken off the air. “After 1989, “Dziennik Telewizyjny” disappeared from the schedule. It was so disgusted and hated that a new news program began to be broadcast – “Wiadomości”. And now this brand has been ruined, ruined by propaganda, destroyed by shoddy messages, often even downright offensive, nothing to do with ethics, reaching back to the worst patterns of propaganda of totalitarian countries,” he lists. The media expert emphasizes that giving “Wiadomości” a new quality and regaining the trust of the program’s viewers will be the most difficult challenge for the new government.
Source: Gazeta
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