Last Tuesday, Adrian Borecki from TV Republika went to Donald Tusk’s press conference, which he was supposed to report on the station’s airwaves. However, the journalist was not allowed to attend the event despite having prior accreditation. “What is this?!” he asked, drawing attention to representatives of other media outlets who managed to get into the conference room. “We’ve been here for an hour and a half in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and we can’t get to the conference of the Prime Minister. This is something absolutely scandalous, unheard of and something that should not take place in a democratic country,” Borecki later reported.
The National Broadcasting Council intervenes in the case of TV Republika
The National Broadcasting Council became interested in the case and issued a position on “equal access to public information”. The National Broadcasting Council opposed blocking access to public information, which is regulated by law. “The National Broadcasting Council expresses its opposition to the violation of the law by public administration authorities in connection with numerous situations in which representatives of certain editorial offices were banned from conferences and press briefings of members of the government,” we read.
The Council referred to the Press Law Act in connection with the denial of access to information to journalists from TV Republika. “Blocking journalists’ access to information about the activities of state bodies prevents them from performing their basic duties resulting from the Press Law Act,” it added. According to the National Broadcasting Council, state administration bodies should act in accordance with Articles 2, 4, 18 and 61 of the aforementioned Act. The first guarantees the media the conditions necessary to perform their functions and tasks (“State bodies, in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, create the conditions necessary for the press to perform its functions and tasks, including enabling the activity of editorial offices of newspapers and magazines diversified in terms of programming, thematic scope and presented attitudes”), while the last protects the right of citizens to information about the activities of public authorities.
Source: Gazeta
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