This comes as no surprise to anyone watching the German media – that’s how PiS MEP Ryszard Czarnecki responded in an interview with PAP to information that the German government has paid journalists about €1.5 million over the past five years.
This comes as no surprise to those who watch the German media. It is significant that the German media speak with one voice on the vast majority of foreign policy issues, and this voice is shared with the current government
Czarnecki stressed.
At the same time, it points out that this does not only apply to foreign policy.
I remember the shameful conspiracy of silence after the attacks on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve in 2015. The German media then agreed that they were an ostrich and buried their heads in the sand. They acted like there was no problem
– deplores the Polish politician.
They criticize Poland. And what do they do for themselves?
What has been revealed is only confirmation of what has long been believed. I would like to point out that successive German governments, German parties and German journalists – who take money from these governments – are shouting loudly about the alleged lack of media freedom in Poland. I have to say this is an example of hypocrisy going not to the German Alps but to the Himalayas and the application of a complete double standard
– concluded Ryszard Czarnecki.
Over the past five years, the German government paid journalists around €1.5 million – for moderating, “creating content” and conducting interviews. This follows from the federal government’s response to an investigation by the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. A total of 200 journalists received payments from the federal government.
Some were employed by the newspapers “Spiegel”, “Zeit”, “Tagesspiegel” and other private media, but about 120 beneficiaries worked for public broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF, WDR and rbb. Between the end of 2017 and 2022, approx. EUR 875,000 went to journalists from the public sector, approx. 597 thousand. euros to journalists from private media.
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Source: wPolityce