“Police had to use force yesterday to disperse demonstrators” reads a photograph caption in Friday’s super libertarian Gazeta Wyborcza. How do they know?

In the absence of two independent, named sources (or is that old hat in the old media?), should the caption not read: “Police used force to disperse demonstrators”?

This was published hard on the heels of stories about the conviction of ZOMO (a kind of auxillary police) officers for killing 9 miners three days after the declaration of martial law in December 1981 in the “Wujek” mine. Would anybody like to bet the communist authorities did not use the expression “were forced to” when describing the actions of the ZOMO?