“Terrorists” reads the headline in today’s Fakt (in English: Fact – I present this information without a trace of irony). Beneath it are photographs of the terrorists in question: about half a dozen doctors, who are on strike at the moment in Poland (80 hospitals out). The tabloid whips itself into the usual frenzy of […]
This weekend’s skittishly unpredictable Gazeta Wyborcza has an intriguing article on the always fascinating subject of the European Union by Judit Kiss, a Hungarian economist. The article is built around a tortuous analogy between the EU referendum and the Merchant of Venice as yet another technocrat tries to perusade us that they read literature too. […]
In the previous post I mentioned how a line in a Langston Hughes poem was changed in communist Poland from “And the slime in hotel spittoons: / Part of my life” to “The slime in hotel spittoons / That’s my life.” As it happens, “That’s my life,” is a phrase that might reverberate with some […]
Todays’s Rzeczpospolita has a translation of part of yesterday’s Guardian editorial. Interestingly, Rzeczpospolita leaves out a few sentences from the Guardian piece without following the convention of putting in ellipsis to mark the ommission. Also, the Polish newspaper translates the original “the old left” with the words “extreme left-wingers.” The Guardian suggests that Chavez is […]
Today’s Gazeta Wyborcza contains an article on Chavez and Morales which is too outrageously partisan to pass up even though I’ve mentioned the subject before. It’s by Maciej Stasiński, which I suspect might be the name of a computer program which shuffles and deals out US-approved cliches about “populism,” “demagoguery” or “the free market.” Here […]
Media Lens has a good article about Chavez coverage in Britain. Meanwhile in Poland Rzeczpospolita makes a much better attempt than Gazeta Wyborcza to disguise its disdain for Chavez in today’s paper.
Chavez is an object lesson in the way the mainstream media works. Consider this article in the Sunday Times by Sarah Baxter. Firstly, there’s the title, with its reference to Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief: “Mischief stirs for Bush in the ‘axis of good’.” Perhaps if Baxter knew more about Waugh than the titles of his […]
Saturday’s Gazeta Wyborcza carries a report by Maciej Stasinski about Teodoro Petkoff, the 74-year-old challenger to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. This newspaper, please note, is regarded with deep suspicion for its left-wing and liberal sympathies by the right wing political establishment in Poland. On a couple of things, though, this newspaper, the American media and […]
April 14th – Gazeta Wyborcza drops its cover price to 1.50. April 15th – Gazeta Wyborcza publishes an article by Adam Krzemi?ski of Polityka about Das Bild (publisher Axel Springer Verlag) entitled “Tabloid with Blood on its Hands”. April 18th – A new newspaper, Dziennik, appears in Polish shops. Price: 1.50. Publisher: Axel Springer Verlag.
You have to hand it to Gazeta Wyborcza ‘s pictures editor. Wojciech Olku?nik’s photographs in today’s paper of Andrzej Lepper as he slides his way into the job of deputy prime minister do much more to convey the newspaper’s disgust than the tedious and tendentious comment articles accompanying the news that Lepper’s Samoobrona party has […]
