Editor-in-Chief Paweł Kapusta reported that his editorial office had met with an effort of economical force on independent journalism. “In the article we presented full documented facts. No innuendos, only hard evidence that the state manager had been associated with ‘The Burak Juice’ for years – a propaganda profile full of hatred and organization content, which played the function of the media backdrop of the Civic Platform – and after the change of power hit an intractive stool in the Totalizer," he pointed out.
He pointed out that his editorial office had previously published an investigative text by Szymon Jadczak, in which he revealed political and business ties between Deputy Minister of State Assets Robert Kropiwnicki and his trusted man – Szymon Gawrishak, vice president of the athletics Totalizer.
In the article we presented full documented facts. No innuendos, only hard evidence that the state manager had been associated with the Burak Juice for years – a propaganda profile full of hatred and organization content, which played the function of the media backdrop of the Civic Platform – and after changing power he ended up on an intimate stool in the Totalizer. We besides presented how the traces were cleaned to hide these connections
— pointed out Kapusta in a post published on Wp.pl.
The writer revealed that alternatively of substantive answers and transparent explanations, his editorial board met... political retortion, since already a fewer hours after publication Totalizator Sportowy withdrew advertising budgets from Virtual Poland.
I want to make this very clear: it is not about money. It is not about budgets, “rewards” or “the cry of the editorial board”, as people who know that the facts are on our side will most likely effort to present it. This is about the principle.
“ He wrote.
Cabbage estimated that erstwhile a state-owned company uses its financial strength to punish the media for a reliable investigative publication, it is not a business method, but an economical censorship.
At this point, the writer besides struck the Government of Law and Justice, suggesting that he allegedly applied the same method, forcing the media to “autocensorship”.
as/WP.pl
