When Law and Justice did not obtain a parliamentary majority in this year’s elections, dark clouds were said to have hung over. During the election campaign, he announced that when the opposition came to power, he would depoliticize the public broadcaster. Everything indicates that the plan will soon come into force and changes will be inevitable. How did employees react to this?
There was a protest in defense of TVP. The station boasts a surprising turnout
Not only the station’s employees, but also the viewers, realized that the atmosphere at Woronicza is more tense than ever before. News programs included messages appealing to recipients to get involved in stopping the changes announced by the opposition. For this purpose, a special support line was even created so that those interested in the topic could express their condemnation of the idea.
The culmination point was to be the protest announced by the head of the “Gazeta Polska” club, Adam Borowski, to participate in which they encouraged, among others, Miłosz Kłeczek or Samuel Pereira. On December 14, 2023, at 4:00 p.m., a demonstration “in defense of public media” took place in front of the Polish Television headquarters at Powstańców Warszawy Square, which was reported on TVP Info and online. They were informed about the crowd of gathered citizens, including journalists, including: . Many employees decided to speak out, and between statements the slogans “We survived Russia, we will survive Tusk” and “Down with communism” were chanted.
Internet users react to TVP’s coverage of the protest. They showed photos of “crowds”
The protest in front of the building received wide coverage in the media, and Internet users quickly reacted to the station’s report, presenting the entire situation from a completely different perspective. Numerous posts published on social media included comments that the actual course of the event was distorted, especially in terms of attendance. Strong words were spoken, including: allegations of manipulation.
Apparently your definition of ‘crowds’ is different than the rest
More people than at Norbie’s concert in Szydłowiec
There are probably more employees at TVP than there are protesters
Well, maybe 200 people came. You can’t stop this force anymore
I passed this ‘crowd’ and there were more people on the subway platform
– wrote Internet users under one of Telewizja Polska’s entries. In opposition to this report, photos and recordings taken by passers-by and people who appeared at the site, although they did not support the protest, began to be shared en masse. It can be concluded from them that the station deliberately took shots from such a perspective that they corresponded to the maintained narrative.
Source: Gazeta
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