The Nation, April 1st, 1991
"The greatest weakness of the Polish press is the conviction of most journalists that their job is not merely to report the news, but to shape it with opinion and to advance a particular political line."
This is from "Emerging Voices: East European Media in Transition," a report prepared with the assistance of Jeremy King, for the Gannett Foundation. The report cites Kazimierz Woycicki, the editor of Zycie Warzawy, whose journalists "see themselves as commentators and essayists; they regard it as beneath their intellectual capacities merely to write concise news stories, and want to be indi...
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