Media in Poland are like political parties. 350th Anniversary of Merkuriusz Polski!
Administrator Friday, 21 January 2011 09:56
We are one of few liberal voices in Poland! And now- Merkuriusz Polski- emerged for the first time on the market, 350 years ago! It was published in 1661, first in Kraków, then in Warsaw. It revived everal times: in interwar 1st Polish Republic, in post-war London.
In Poland, newspapers are like political parties- they push through their own agenda, and mobilize political support around it. Newspapers are even more powerful than politics. People are not very enlighted. People are for example islamophobic- and there are no Muslim people in Poland. If they are, then they are wearing tracksuits, smoke weed, and condemn such places as „Przystanek Woodwstock”- dirty and messy rock festival, favoured by Polish number one daily, Gazeta Wyborcza.
The Westerners gave power to the people. And- such average people hold it. Polish authorities are average- nothing more. Polish politics is mediocre and average, nothing more. This is not sufficient in contempoirary times, and Polish cities loose young, educated citizens.
Westerners gave power to people in Poland. They gave printing press to some people- like the printing machines for the Polish daiky „'Wyborcza”. Those people however failed to do proper media. Many of Polish journalists for example think that working at the largest Polish „middle- market” daily, Gazeta Wyborcza, is something nobilitating,. And it is not. There are few professional journalists there, the journalists' job was learned at working.
If one does business in Poland, one cares for his or her own interests, as even these interests are not satisfied. Country suffers upon enormous bureaucracy. European funds are divided among „cronies”. Your application as turned back for whatever reason. Ththere are 300-400 pages of applications and attachments, there are many calculations that can go wrong, and you have only one chance to correct it. At our company we tried like ten times, everything failed even to pass the first test, did not even made to the appraisal stage.
I wonder if there is mafia. In Russia there is. In Poland, public services are going terribely wrong, and there is either shortage of funds (although taxation reaches 47,7 % and is among the highest). GDP is not calculated in the „euro-zone” methodology. Demographic data is missing, some 10 % of population could have already emigrated.
