Wojciech Surmacz is simply a figure inextricably connected with the media camera of the PiS camp. As the erstwhile president of the Polish Press Agency, he led it at the time erstwhile the institution was accused of being completely servilism towards power.
Today Surmacz returns with a fresh ambitious project: Newsmax Poland. And although the announcements sound professional, it is the past of its creator that should be a informing signal to the right. Cooperation with specified a media trigger is an image suicide for a formation building its capital in contesting the COPIS layout.
New sign, old face! What do we know about Newsmax Poland?
According to authoritative announcements and open letter by Wojciech Surmacz (the station's executive producer), the task starts in full:
- ➡️ Newsmaxpolska.pl was scheduled to launch on Monday, April 20, 2026.
- ➡️ The tv channel is scheduled to start broadcasting in late May 2026, initially in streaming, and the studio is located in the Warsaw Digital cognition Village complex at Puławska Street.
- ➡️ Capital and connections: Adria DTH, linked to Telekom Srbić, is behind the project.
Importantly, although the Polish version is expected to be more centred than its protrumpian American prototype, the same entry of Serbian capital (often associated with the government's influence in Belgrade) in the hands of the PiS man raises immense questions about the actual independency of this station.
Why should the right keep its distance?
The argument against Surmacz's credibility is not only political sympathy, but concrete evidence of how he understands journalistic ethics. We learn most about this from the email scandal of Michał Dworczyk. From the leaks emerges a image of a messenger journalist:
- ➡️ Taking out interviews: Surmacz was to be presented in his emails as a man by whom the environment of Prime Minister Morawiecki could easy organize a government-friendly message in PAP.
- ➡️ Looking for a clever journalist: Prime Minister Morawiecki himself was to ask Surmacz to find individual to interview president Andrzej Duda. This proves that PAP under his leadership was not an information agency, but a tool for political marketing.
- ➡️ Loyalty beyond ethics: situations were described in which Surmacz was to give politicians of the Law and Justice Department interior correspondence of PAP employees (e.g. after the publication of Dworczyk's telephone number) to explain the situation to his moguls.
The announcements of Newsmax Poland with advanced standards, transparency and ethics sound in mouth Surmac like a grim joke. He's a man who's proven to be able to actively sync the message to the organization business.
Even if Newsmax Poland tries to cut itself off from the extremes of tv Republic, the presence of Surmacz guarantees 1 thing: a task that can be utilized at any time to play politicians. If the leaders of the right are seduced by the promise of a fresh quality and enter into close cooperation with this medium, they will fall into a trap. They will be authenticated by an apparatusist who, in his first political need, can usage these relations against them. I advise you to watch, but keep your distance. With specified propaganda, nothing good can be built.
Even if only part of the information is accurate in the Surmacz press release (taking into account that the media describing these matters are besides biased), the full of it inactive gives a terrible evidence to him. This confirms that he actively participated in the organization fight and abandoned the ethos of an objective, impartial journalist.
Grzegorz GPS Swiderski
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