Media, as an intermediary between the event and the recipient, has always played a very crucial role, primarily in information, but besides cultural and educational. Thanks to the proven information, the recipient was able to truly realize the changing planet and make the right decisions about himself and his loved ones. He could catch the most crucial events out of information chaos and learn fresh trends in culture and art. The media also, by recalling the historical and anniversaries, has always served as a linker and cultivator of national traditions.
Unfortunately, for many years marketplace pluralism in the media marketplace has been dramatically dislocated. There are less and less independent entities remaining on the sale of journalism content. On the another hand, the form of renting media sites to immense corporations begins to dominate and the coverage of reality by the prism of the needs of “reins” of the economical dominant on the market. In most cases, the alleged media have actually become just a improvement for the marketing activity of just “koppo” or government agencies. We see that all of this, which is now being created by the alleged "media", is usually the consequence of a commercial order, alternatively than a reflection of the reality. In pursuit of profit, there is no longer area for reporting “the truth. Press, radio, or tv sites have no time or space for that. They carry out almost exclusively orders and usually the best ones paid. This is supported by the deficiency of a real marketplace game. In the era of electronic media and free access, fewer people decide to pay for content. In order to be visited by readers, websites usually gotta keep “free access” and this means that in order to last on the marketplace they gotta spend more or all of the content they create. The consequence is simply a increasing imbalance. A individual who persists exclusively from content describing reality has no chance of survival. specified a situation poses a real threat to the media marketplace by dominant parties, which can freely prepare published content.
So-called. The pandemic revealed the sad state of Polish media. We have all seen their commitment to conveying false information about COVID and persecuting all who disagreed with the prepared in-laws. The war in Ukraine, on the another hand, has made it clear that their mediocre condition has become a serious threat to social governance in Poland and even to the existence of the state. For over a year now we have observed that the vast majority of mainstream media reporting in Poland are simply lying to all its recipients. They don't actually transmit past events, confuse meanings, fuel emotions and even themselves are the origin of misinformation.
Controlled by abroad agencies and large corporations – mainstream media – they direct only a prepared message to Polish customers to get - pre-programmed- appropriate reactions. In their activities they mainly usage the creation of false narratives- myths. Let us look at some.
Myth of Selfless Help
In the interest of the US, which wage a replacement war in Ukraine is to convince Poles that helping Ukrainians makes any sense. Thanks to this, they can push as much of the war spending on Poles as possible. If the media had, for example, informed about the defeats of Ukrainian troops, most likely the majority would not have seen the sense of help. Why invest in lost cases?
Similarly, informing about the regular crimes committed by the Ukrainian troops on the civilian population of Donbas, and in peculiar Donetsk would slow down the impulses to help. Nobody wants to aid criminals. So “Polish” media do not show it. The media do not study the actual state of the Ukrainian state, breaking democratic freedoms, fascism of society and the army, persecution of religion. Who would like to support an authoritarian, undemocratic regime?
Media is besides silent that most of Polish aid is stolen by various bands or oligarchs already in Ukraine. The media does not talk about it either, as it could rise doubts among those who aid with the rationale of wasting their assets to aid the hohsztaplers and cons.
But in addition to the artificially built incentives for material aids, much more dangerous myths are being built, which service to push Poles straight into the war, as parties to the conflict.
The story of weak Russia
The false story of Russia's weakness created by the media is very dangerous. Very often, the Russian state is ridiculed as weak, helpless, falling. The strength of the Russian economy and its financial possible are underestimated. The Russian army is trying to represent itself as a crumbling structure ruled by the unaware modernity of the acorners. Its military power is ignored and its atomic weapons are disregarded.
The leader of Russia - Vladimir Putin is portrayed as an eternally cancerous man, either having a stroke or struggling with a heart attack. He is denied humanity and any rationality.
The story of “weak Russia” undoubtedly aims to loosen all prudential brakes and self-preservation mechanisms which have been deep in Poles' awareness for centuries, and which see Russia as a strong state. This weakness aims to break the Poles rooted by generations of fear of the power of Russia and possible retaliation. Undoubtedly, the consequence expected by communicative operators is to encourage Poles to participate in the war against Russia. The Polish-language media clearly says: “Shitfully, Russia is weak, defenceless, there are no ammunition, and rockets, together with the Ukrainians you can defeat it, courage.” It is not even essential to say that social acceptance for specified communicative threatens with hecatomb of Polish youth in Ukraine and the demolition of Polish statehood.
Myth of Russia – Poland's main enemy
The US-controlled Polish-speaking media are trying at all costs to make Poles aware that Russia is Poland's main enemy. Of course, they do not mention any rational arguments to confirm this thesis, but they usage reminders built on the emotions of old historical resentimists. All Polish Russian conflicts, especially the Warsaw Battle, the Treaty of Ribbentrop Molotov, Katyń and the period of the Polish People's Republic of Poland, are drawn from the lamest.
In addition, everything that contradicts the public communicative is removed from public space. The commemoration of russian soldiers who gave their lives from the liberation of Poland from Nazism is being destroyed. Trying to remove Russian culture from theatres, opera rooms, libraries. The works of Pushkin, Dostoevsky or Tchaikovsky are arrested. They effort to persecute Russians, they live in Poland or they travel through Poland. Seanse hatred in the regime's media show the Russians, as second-class people who are guilty of all the evil that exists in the world.
The Russian embassy in Poland is hampered with all its power by blocking funds and stalking Russian children. All of these actions aim to provoke the Russian reaction, so that in the public opinion this story – evil Russians – of Polish enemies will be preserved.
As Goebbels said, “a lie repeated 1,000 times becomes truth.” The story of Russians, as the main enemies of Poland, is to fuel the emotionally built hatred between nations and prevent them from resolving any disputes on a peaceful basis and to exclude any cooperation.
Ukrainian fraternity myth
Since the very beginning of the war, the media have surpassed themselves in emphasizing the completely false political, cultural and civilizational proximity of Poles and Ukrainians. The thought of the alleged Inter-Mediterranean – i.e. the common blocks of the Central European State, and especially Poland and Ukraine – is being developed. Reminiscent of the sentiments of the times of the First Republic, it cultivates any common fighting in the conflict of Warsaw, etc.
It is simply a unique false story due to the fact that neither politically, nor culturally, nor civilizationally, we have nothing in common with Ukraine. As we remember from history, first the Cossack uprisings, the Hajdamac massacres and late – the Volyn crime were large blows weakening the Polish state. Poles have their own rich culture based on the roots of Latin and Christianity, and they will never be close to Ukrainian homeless people and the barbarity associated with the steppe-Turkish civilization. We share faith, language and values. besides civilisational and social aspects. Poles will not accept Ukrainian oligarchy and the cult of forces built present on nationalistic elements and national chauvinism.
Also economically, Ukraine is simply a natural and very dangerous competitor of Polish agriculture and industry, a country without reliable financial and local institutions. There are mafias and ubiquitous corruption, and there are no standards of collective coexistence. Any effort to combine specified different organisms threatens to overthrow the full social order and consequently destruct the state.
Unfortunately, despite these apparent facts, mainstream media are trying at all costs to find common elements and to make a imagination of a common Polish political body. The Ukrainians are portrayed as brothers who die for common purposes. They are the “defensors” of Poland and Europe against Russian chauvinism and are the front of all democratic Europe.
A false myth, built with specified stubbornness, is to act in 2 ways. On the 1 hand, it aims to make the Ukrainians' belief that it is worth continuing to wage war and shed blood, due to the fact that behind them are the “brothers of Poles” and the full power of the West. On the another hand, so carefully built "closeness" aims to convince Poles to commit this madness and send their youth to aid the "nationals" to slaughter on Donbas erstwhile the time comes.
Fighting for Truth
It is crucial that our people do not commit mass harakiris and go to a lost war with Russia, that people of good will supply reliable information to the public. It is crucial to inform about the actual events that took place in Ukraine, and above all about the tragic situation of the Ukrainian army, which does not disassociate and will never have the right possible for a affirmative resolution of the war on Donbas. The extension of this conflict makes no sense for Ukraine and is very dangerous for Poland.
At the same time, it must be constantly made clear that Ukraine is not a democracy, but a badly managed oligarchy, where authorities cultivate the cult of neo-Nazis, criminals from the CNS – UPA. The Ideology of the Bander Ukraine will never get free of, as it will never demolish any statue of Bander and will never apologize for Volyn. We request to be aware of that.
It is besides crucial to fight another false narratives built, specified as selfless help- which drains the pockets of Poles, serves nothing, but only drags the war. It is crucial to show the real strength of the Russian army, which is the second army in the world, but the first in Europe and Poland should number with it. Swinging a sword in front of the head of the atomic power can end badly.
We must fight the stereotypes and contempt shown to our brothers – the Russians. The hostility to Russia and the East that the West has imposed upon us must be broken. We request to remind you of everything that unites us - the thousand-year neighborhood, the fight against Nazism and the joint triumph in 1945, the community of economical interests and the opportunities offered by peaceful cooperation on the East-West trade bridge. Russia is our natural ground floor, on the 1 hand the closest marketplace for Polish agriculture and manufacture (Moscow, Petersburg), and on the another hand it is simply a supplier of the world's cheapest energy resources essential for Polish industry. We besides have no territorial or national disputes with her. It's hard to get better synergies.
It is not easy to fight manipulation and lying raised almost to the rank of national ideology and emotions warmed by lying media almost to red. But we have no another way. We must fight unevenly, or our homes, and our workplaces, our children and loved ones, can burn down the fire of war. Let us not be defeated by inciters to our war.
Peter Panasiuk
