For a movie prepared by Leszek Kraskowski for his website Reporters.online about it, Like Roman Gierty and Richard Krauze They brought millions of zlotys out of the developer Polnord, and I hit an accident – and worse, it was most likely any kind of sprinkling. Krzysztof Stanowski on X. In a 45-minute recording, the author cites documents, brings closer mechanisms, supports his investigation with authority of many years of work in serious media, in the description of the channel we will besides read about awards for crucial and loud investigations.
I do not rapidly find arguments for not believing Kraskowski. Giertych himself is not peculiarly eager to straighten out reports of an always stronger coalition against himself. The commenting movie is indignant. For my consideration, I look at the “Gazeta Wyborcza” which, with the feathers of Piotr Żytnicki and Jack Brzuszkiewicz, convinces that the discontinued investigation of Giertych is simply a written chase, and the patron himself could not decide on the company's finances, due to the fact that he served it only from the legal side. It calms me – so everything is in the best order, the Polish mountain.
The problem with making Polnord "political gold" for a grey bread eater is that... it's complicated. "What are these mediocre people expected to realize from it, since I don't realize any of it," said Tomasz Lis a long time ago, predicting in a way what it will be like to function in media reality in 2025. 20 years ago, it was a amazingly insightful reflection.
Let us callback the resignation of Vladimir Cimoszewicz from the 2005 presidential race, large described by Adam Leszczyński. Or an affair with the acquisition of “Polisa” shares by Jolanta Kwasniewska, launched by “Life of Warsaw” in the 1995 campaign, which he told me about Michał Sutowski. Ask a casual individual present without a doctorate in political science, what this was all about – I warrant that the chance of a coherent message about both "affers" is close to zero.
And here we go back to the movie Kraskovsky. His description shows a dramatic appeal: “Investigative journalism is 1 of the pillars of the 4th power. Unfortunately, in Poland this pillar is crumbling. Don't let that happen." In vain regrets, vain labor. The illusion that investigative journalism can affect anything is simply a sentimental fairy tale and the main charge I could gotta Reporters Online.
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"An old model of investigative journalism, where you find whistleblowers or papers and present them to recipients who are angry with force on legislators, has stopped working. erstwhile I read that the rich keep money in taxation havens, I think, “Yes, I know, but I besides know that nothing will be done.” Investigative journalism has become a cliché due to the fact that it only tells us that the planet is corrupt. I want journalism to tell me why nothing is done about it," he said last year interview with Crack Magazine Outstanding manager of documentary, collage video essays, Adam Curtis. How dare you?
Author's Heresy Hypernormalisationespecially painful listening in Poland – a country that can inactive boast masters and masters in this difficult, costly and resource-intensive craft. Spectacular, clogged months of investigation is at the same time the best and most demanding road to the journalistic summit and leveraging from the precarian pit, the written majority of adepts of the profession. The awards gala is simply a large celebration of the capture of investigative journalism.
But let us look at the winners of the Grand Press award in this category, since Trump's first triumph sparked a discussion about fake news and their impact on reality. Subjects? Police officers killed Igor Stachowiak at the police station in Wrocław. Antoni Macierewicz lied. Marian Banas rented rooms for hours. The wellness minister bought worthless masks. Polish Nazis with taste ate swastika cake in the woods.
Each of these materials has surely become an crucial component of the communicative about Poland in the second and 3rd decades of the 21st century, but the career of Macerewicz or Banasia has been influenced to a tiny extent. What a substance of overthrowing governments!
When Sławomir Sierakowski and Przemysław Sadura asked various electorates about their attitude towards the affair, They heard: “Whether it is the PiS or the Platform, what is to come out, it will come out, what is not to come out, it will not come out, and we will not know about it.” And Marci Shore, writing after the last U.S. presidential election, that present nothing is hidden, as quoted by Vladimir Surkov, spindoctor Vladimir Putin: "The most brutal structures of the scaffolding of power go consecutive through the facade of the building, the architect does not hide them under any unnecessary additives."
This divided – between the truth, which we will never know, and the open, direct and full unveiling of violent structures, which do not hide behind any facade – seems to me to be the core of the problem in which colleagues and colleagues dealing with the disclosure of irregularities found themselves.
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Just in case, I would point out again: the fact that investigative journalism does not change the planet does not overturn the importance of the profession itself. Does not the peripety accompanying the revelation that Dr. Nawrocki utilized an hr flat at the planet War II Museum give us a smile? Do reports on Silver give no thought about Jarosław Kaczyński's thought of Poland? Should the task of explaining the neo-Oscillator to be utilized by Gierty and Krauze be regarded as a crusade of the madmen? Not at all.
The problem is that exposing subsequent reports as “captains”, silencing incorruptible SLAPPs from a law firm serving billionaires, or feeling the impunity of politicians and shruging their arms into further explosive reports “it is not a bug, it is simply a feature”. Of course, the engagement of a squad of top specialists in the multi-week grilling of the marginal minister can contribute to his resignation – especially if he belongs to a insignificant coalition organization and his political and media background is nothing. But from a national perspective?
PiS voters will vote for anyone who can be nominated by Jarosław Kaczyński. PO fanatics will pray for Roman Giertych, even if his hiding in Italy while he was being sought out by the pisical prosecutor, does not look like any moral superiority over Marcin Romanowski, asking for asylum in Hungary at the minute of the search by the peowska prosecutor.
The possibilities of a "fourth power" at a time erstwhile political convictions are toughened on the services to which the keys hold a Hailing egomaniac and another spineless American businessmen are ridiculously tiny today. Which should have lit an emergency lamp in the media and among the investigative journalists themselves. Restoring their professional prestige will not be possible without regulating the impact on society of manual control of Musk or Zuckerberg-style oligarchs, and the regular celebration of a well-made work is only a smokescreen for decomposition, which is becoming increasingly violent from year to year.
