On Sunday night, the media heard about a social gathering at the restaurant Orzo in Warsaw's Constitution Square, where politicians of the Civic Coalition and journalists were spotted. According to the portal atPoliticy.pl, among the politicians were the Minister of European Affairs Adam Szpiepka, government typical for reconstruction after the flood Marcin Kierwiński, MP Paweł Kowal and Euro MP Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz.
On the journalist's side were: TVP president Tomasz Sygut, TVP liquidator Daniel Gorgosz, Kamila Biedrzycka-Osica. There were besides representatives of Gazeta Wyborcza, including Adam Michnik, who reacted most powerfully to the presence of right-wing media journalists. The editor engaged in a fewer minutes of discussion, during which he spared no harsh words. To journalists in Poland24 he said: You're ch...mi!.
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Some propose that the gathering may have been linked to the fresh anniversary of the power takeover of TVP, which is inactive causing controversy, especially in the context of the manner of operation and legality, developed by then minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz.
The gathering raises controversy and outrage not only among right-wing commentators. The government coalition, after taking over public media, promised to introduce fresh standards free of political influence. Meanwhile, public media journalists, financed by the state budget, spend their private time on spotted events with politicians. specified situations rise questions about conflict of interest and media bias.
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In December, tv Poland signed annex 3 to the September agreement with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, under which it received an additional PLN 120.3 million. On the TVP website you can find data on another peculiar subsidies related to the implementation of the public service mission: in February it amounted to PLN 220 million, in April PLN 480 million, in July PLN 320 million, in September PLN 90 million, and in October PLN 539.8 million, which together accounts for nearly PLN 1.9 billion.
Although this sum is impressive, it is smaller than in 2023, erstwhile during the regulation of PiS tv Poland received evidence PLN 2.67 billion from RTV subscription and subscription compensation, of which the compensation itself amounted to PLN 2.35 billion.
