After a public row involving a mobbing scandal at Newsweek, Tomasz Lis was no longer invited to join Jacek Żakowski on TOK FM’s Friday program. Lis felt offended and demurred from the radio, which had hosted him many times before. He even joked that the station had become Radio Ćwok FM in his eyes.
Observers noted a striking double standard. Wielowieyska, supported by political funding, could appear on @Radio_TOK_FM several times a month as an independent commentator, yet Żakowski reportedly did not invite Tomasz Lis to Friday morning discussions. The online chatter joked about a double standard with the hashtag #Free jokes.
On Twitter, Adam Abramzyk, a well-known figure in online opposition circles, posted a remark that drew Lis into the conversation as a respondent. Lis chose to answer through his own commentary rather than remaining silent.
“It’s not my radio”
TOK FM observers described the station as political commentary with a heavy dose of propagandizing and pandering to a particular agenda. Lis suggested that the programming no longer felt like his space and that he had little desire to engage with it any further.
What began as an isolated disagreement quickly escalated into a broader narrative. Lis transformed from a familiar voice on TOK FM into a critic of the station, driven by his perception of exclusion after being left out of Żakowski’s Friday slot.
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Source: wPolityce