![]() ![]() Myśliwiecka 3/5/7 w Warszawie.© 2021 - All rights reserved, reproduction unallowed | Radios | Contact and Privacy | Partners | Propose a radioĪlgerian radio - Argentine radio - Austrian Radios - Belgian radios - Brazilian radios - Canadians radio - Chinese radio - Cubans radio - Czech radios -Įnglish radios - French radios - German radio - Greek radios - Hungarian radios - Indians radios - Indonesian Radios - Iranian Radio - Irish radio. This role is especially important during election periods, when citizens should be able to turn to public media without fear of undue influence from the ruling government. Independent public media are fundamental pillars of democracy, with a role to universally inform the public and hold power to account. Pavol Rvalai of RSF condemned the attacks, saying : “The attacks are all the more reprehensible for taking place in the pre-electoral period when citizens need reliable information in order to decide how to vote.” ![]() Meanwhile, there has been a significant increase in the number of reported attacks and harassment of those working in Poland’s beleaguered independent media in the run up to the election. ![]() With a presidential election due at the end of June, the alleged censorship does nothing to suggest a move towards much needed independent public media. “ It is a Polish political custom that the public media is captured by the party that is in government…This is an example of the complete mess that has been created over the last three decades within this system of the public media in Poland.” Read more: Poland’s election without public mediaĪs journalist, Dariusz Rosiak, former head of a current affairs programme at Radio Trojka, observes: This is the latest in a series of incidents which have seen the ruling party consolidate their control over the public broadcaster, effectively turning it into a mouthpiece of the government since coming to power in late 2015. Musicians have also joined a boycott by stopping their material from being aired, and journalists also demonstrated outside of Radio Trokja’s building in silence. Several broadcasters, including the long-running host of Radio Trojka, Marek Niedzwiecki, have resigned from the station. However, employees working at the radio station report that Kaczynski called for the song to be removed. Radio station boss, Tomasz Kowalczewski, denied that any tampering with the chart list took place, insisting that it had been “manually moved to number one”, according to BBC news. The song subtly criticises Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, for bending lockdown rules by visiting a cemetery at a time when all cemeteries in the country had been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Polish public radio station, “Trojka” (Radio Three), has been accused of censoring musician Kazik Staszewski’s song, “Your pain is better than my pain”, which was voted in by listeners at number one before being swiftly removed from the radio station’s website. A debate about media freedom and the role of public media has been sparked in Poland after a public radio station removed a chart-topping anti-government song from its website.
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