I haven’t seen a copy of the Sunday Times in a pleasantly long time but I presume their coverage of science is as top-notch as ever: gushing articles about the latest and bestest weapons for British soldiers made by British scientists. I was reminded of this by today’s Dziennik, which has a page given over […]
Congratulations to Witold Gadomski, economics features writer for Gazeta Wyborcza who has just won a prize for fearlessly upholding the general right wing status quo in economics. No, really, I mean it. The prize is funded by the avowedly apolitical Polish National Bank, the assuredly neutral Association of Polish Journalists and the totally objective Reuters […]
Today’s Gazeta Wyborcza has an extended advertisement for an anti-plagiarism service whose name I won’t give here, since GW helpfully prints it several times in BLOCK CAPITALS. Why the irony? you ask. Why shouldn’t the newspaper print the company’s name in BLOCK CAPITALS since it is an advertisement? Because formally at least it is not […]
Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach (or “prime minister”) of Ireland, has an article in yesterday’s Gazeta Wyborcza. While it is too boring to read, one thing does stand out: the man’s impeccable Polish (no translator is credited). Unless – perish the thought – a Polish politician or bureaucrat wrote it and Ahern just put his name to […]
Hardly do I open my yap about Gazeta Wyborcza’s occasionally one-sided picture of how great it is everywhere in the EU except Poland than economist and journalist Waldemar Kuczy?ski chimes in (on the pages of GW) on the same note. In today’s paper he writes “in the short term nothing can be done to stem […]
“The jury is out on Chavez” announces the headline of Denis MacShane’s article on Venezuela in the Guardian. If only it were. Any reporter I read seems to have his mind made up to give Chavez a fair trial before execution in the court of public opinion.
Some months back (March 28th — it fell down the back of the couch) Polityka had a promising article on the encroachment of public space by private property (“Wspólnie nie dla wszystkich”). It would be naive to think that the Polish reader would find in such a magazine anything about Reclaim the Streets – they […]
There’s an interview with Bronis?aw Wildstein, new chairman of the state TV company, in today’s Rzeczpospolita. Jaros?aw Murawski asks this champion of the citizen’s right – nay, obligation – to be well-informed about democratic society’s workings if Wildstein has not sacked certain people because they are protected by Samoobrona (coalition members). Wildstein fearlessly replies: “If […]
Today’s Gazeta Wyborcza has a full-page ad for a car on its front page. Above it are the words (I’m quoting from memory as I did not buy it) “This ad makes childrens’ dreams come true.” As the sound of vomit splashing into the bottom of sickbags dies down, may I remind you that today […]
Today’s Wyborcza takes rival newspapers Fakt and Dziennik (both published by Springer Verlag) to task for their hysterical coverage of the doctors’ strike. El?bieta Cichocka comments that for several months she has been hearing with “przera?enie” (terror, dread) how doctors have been discussing the use of “miners’” tactics – i.e. physical, violent protests. Miners and […]
