A heated meeting of the parliamentary culture committee! The chairman of the committee, Bogdan Zdrojewski KO, did not want to allow discussion of the attack on public media at all costs. “We are dealing with saving the public media,” he said. “Nice method… Jaruzelski has also restored democracy,” replied Marek Suski (PiS).
““Dictatorial tendencies”
During the meeting of the parliamentary committee for culture and media, the vice-chairman of the committee, PiS MP Joanna Lichocka, submitted a motion to “expand the agenda to include information from the Minister of Culture on illegal activities related to the pacification of public media, the introduction of usurpers there, and information from the National Broadcasting Council on the losses suffered by the public media as a result of this criminal attack.”
This is happening right now
– she said.
The chairman of the committee wanted to ‘silence’ the PiS MPs as quickly as possible.
I would like to vote against it, but since there was one vote for the applicant, we won’t waste any more time
– said KO MP Bogdan Zdrojewski, who wanted to proceed immediately to the vote.
Do you not intend to discuss the motion?
– asked PiS MP Marek Suski.
I have no plans for the application itself
– replied Zdrojewski.
I understand the dictatorial tendencies and I congratulate the Chairman for not even having a discussion in committee
– Suski noted.
“Today you destroy the archives”
When Joanna Lichocka’s formal request for information from the Minister of Culture and the National Broadcasting Council failed to pass the vote, Marek Suski submitted a formal request to supplement the agenda with “information on the destruction of archives, which – according to reports in the media – is currently taking place.”
This is in the interest of our country and I think such information should be available (…). This is not only a historical but also a financial value
– added.
Fascists used to burn books, today you destroy archives. This is comparable to the time when Hitler came to power
– concluded Suski.
Meanwhile, Zdrojewski denied that public media archives were destroyed.
I deny it, Mr. MP, I deny it
– he said.
I am surprised that you are not aware of the destruction of the achievements of creators, journalists and documentarians who have worked for public television in recent decades (…) For example, if you were to talk to Tomasz Łysiak, you would find out that already his work has disappeared from the space of public space television, they are not available on public television portals. Not only do you destroy ‘Reset’ because you don’t want to hear about your ties with Russia, you don’t want the Poles to know about it, but you also destroy material from Polish creators. What bothers you about Polish culture?
– Lichocka answered.
It is a scandal that the chairman [komisji] If he has this kind of information, he doesn’t want to deal with the issue. We hoped that some discussion would arise in the Sejm
– Suski also said.
Zdrojewski’s reaction was extremely arrogant!
If you have such knowledge, please leave the culture committee and immediately run to the prosecutor’s office and submit an appropriate request. Immediately!
– said the KO MP.
Applications to the public prosecutor’s office are submitted successively, Mr. Chairman
– Lichocka answered.
And thank you very much for your advice about running out. Maybe it fits in with the sports committee
– MP Suski added.
Zdrojewski tried to end the discussion.
My knowledge of the state of state archives. including television, is quite extensive. I know what losses the TV archives suffered after 1989 (…)
– he said, at the same time arguing that he was not blocking the topic of the destruction of archives, but that it would take time to discuss it.
I consider this topic closed for now
– he said.
The chairman of the committee initially did not want to vote on this formal motion, and subsequently did not intend to allow other MPs to vote, including the former Minister of Culture, Prof. Piotr Glinski.
You’re not the martial law commissioner, are you? During martial law, the opposition’s mouth was gagged
– says Marek Suski.
Gliński: Sienkiewicz did not know whether he had consciously broken the law?
Finally, Prof. Gliński was able to speak. The former minister filed a request for a break and to summon Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz. As the PiS politician noted, PAP is almost 90 percent self-financing.
The reasons for this sham liquidation are also incorrect. (…) Did he not know that it was financed from another source and had nothing to do with the budget law, or did he do it on purpose and knowingly violate the law? This is outrageous. We are dealing with an attack on Polish democracy
– said Gliński.
TVP World shutdown
KO MP Urszula Augustyn accused PiS MPs of accepting the committee meeting agenda and now submitting formal motions.
You are blocking today’s committee meeting because you have this idea
– she said.
In turn, PiS MP Marcin Przydacz, former head of the presidential Office for International Policy, drew attention to the liquidation of TVP World.
For us, people concerned with international affairs, this channel was an important transmitter of various types of information about Poland and all of Central Europe to the English-speaking world. The channel is completely disabled
– he warned.
“Jaruzelski also restored democracy
After the speeches of the PiS MPs, the impatient chairman of the committee, Bogdan Zdrojewski, decided to move on to further points of the meeting. At the same time he tried to express his own, extremely grotesque opinion…
I didn’t want to get into a polemic with you. My assessment of what is happening in the public media is different
– he said.
However, I share the opinion that the topic is important and should be discussed, if not during the plenary session of the Sejm, then in the culture committee (…). I think this topic is important, but I do not share the review that appeared, there was a review “destruction of public media”
– he continued.
On the contrary, we are dealing with saving the public media and restoring it to society…
– said Zdrojewski.
Nice method… Jaruzelski also restored democracy
– replied Marek Suski (PiS).
Losing Public Television!
After the report, the Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council, Member of Parliament Lichocka, asked a very important question!
In light of the actions of Minister Sienkiewicz and the government of Donald Tusk, which attack the existence of the public media and thus also affect the interests of the state, we can also speak in the context of the business interests of the media groups who promoted the current ruling power. party. What do you think are the flows and amounts that will be transferred to commercial channels as a result of the destructive actions of Donald Tusk’s government towards the public media?
The head of the National Broadcasting Council, Maciej Świrski, announced that he ordered such an investigation as soon as he heard about the plans to liquidate the public media, and such calculations are currently being made!
Telewizja Polska does not have the right to broadcast commercials by interrupting commercials; commercial television has the privilege in this case. For example, TVN has 6 or 7 channels and TVP 16. TVN’s revenues are twice as high as TVP’s. There are fewer channels and the channel’s revenues are more than twice as large. That is the difference
– said the head of the National Broadcasting Council.
20 percent must be distributed. advertising cake, i.e. a billion zloty, between the competition of public television and this, in my opinion, is at stake when it comes to the advertising market
– he answered.
“This is what pluralism looks like in Poland”
One violation of the law is replaced by another violation of the law. I say again that PAP financing consists of self-financing and subsidies (…). These outrageous actions in both cases, the illegal appointment of neo-presidents and the illegal liquidation of media companies, have the characteristics of acting to the detriment of these companies. This is perfectly clear
– Piotr Gliński (PiS) spoke about the losses of public media, while pointing out that commercial channels benefit from the losses of public media.
For some random reason, I just went out into the hallway and a few journalists came up to me. Three sevens were from one station, TVN, and one was from another station. This is what pluralism looks like in Poland. I congratulate you on building Polish democracy
– he said.
This is a scandal, what you are doing! Not only will this have legal consequences that you will have to bear, deliberate actions and terrorizing the media community, but it is also a violation of a democratic culture that can never be rebuilt.
– he emphasized.
This will go down in Polish history and the assessment will be completely clear (…). You attack Poland
– said Prof. Gliński.
Head of the National Broadcasting Council vs. Zdrojewski
The chairman of the National Broadcasting Council pointed out that TVP includes not only equipment and buildings, but also intangible property rights.
To say that the liquidation of TVP after recovery can be reversed at any time, that liquidation can be a reversible process, is in my opinion only intended to calm public opinion. (…) When the liquidation is entered into, it must be completed and the assets must be sold
– emphasized Maciej Świrski.
Zdrojewski didn’t like it…
That is not necessary, you know very well how the liquidation process works and I would ask you not to mislead the public
– he tried to lecture the head of the National Broadcasting Council.
The law was broken, including the constitution (…). Who will become the owner of intangible rights in the liquidation process? Are they sold and to whom? For example, rights to Polish series
– added.
“Close the media system
Pluralism on the market was (…) Both parties had their political colors and this pluralism existed at that time. When public media is liquidated, we will be dealing with a non-pluralistic system, to say the least. I can say that this is the closure of the media system, eliminating completely different views than those of the government
– Świrski continued.
As he noted, it had not yet been predicted that the public media would be “liquidated illicitly, in violation of the Constitution and laws.”
Source: wPolityce