As you all know, 1 year ago, during the celebrated gathering of the editorial board “GW” individual secretly recorded it – and then someway transferred it to TVP. possibly someday we'll find out who and why it all took a year.
Pereira and his minions tried to make a large deal out of it, but it didn't work out. There was a group of journalists on the subject of Obiekt.
What's unusual about that, he didn't effort to explain it. He only asked rhetorical questions like "who ordered them to do it" (and the recording clearly shows that the deputy editor-in-chief, due to the fact that that's his job).
All the celebrated journalistic investigations in past had individual who “sent an order”. The Watergate affair was worked out, as is known, by Woodward and Bernstein, but their boss, Ben Bradlee (Oscar for the supporting function for character actor Jason Robards) gave them an “order”.
It's cognition so common that even after right-wing bloggers, I don't see any agitation with Pereira's revelations. Just in case, however, I can explain that the editorial board is not a blog site where everyone throws what they want.
The drafting consists, among another things, of decisions of the kind "Iksiński deals with this, and Igrekowski does that". Thus, in this sense, Iksiński is regularly given orders.
The recordings besides revealed that the mechanics of the “Chinese wall” inactive operates in the “Gazeta Wyborcza” – the separation of editorials from corporations. There were 2 examples – a column mocking the book published by Agora and texts hitting Amazon, an crucial advertiser.
Records show that the board exerted force to prevent these texts from appearing, but they did. I think we all remember a superb column. Varga cross about Lipinska's book or lyrics Adriana Rozwadowska about Amazon (and more).
So the pressures were ineffective. And you can imagine how the Corpomenajers were brought to the ground level listening to Adam Michnik torture president Hojka in this conversation.
Let us remind you that what Hojka presents here as impossible (because procedures, due to the fact that the stock exchange, due to the fact that the statute), yet happened. The “Man of the Newspaper” was introduced to the Agora board. due to the fact that it was, as Adam rightly put it, a question of political will.
But if the first plans and editorials were implemented, they were connected to the portal newspaper.pl and subjected to the management of the company – the Chinese wall would disappear. Amazon could block critical texts simply by buying up ads.
Although the metaphor of the "Chinese wall" refers to ethno-engineering associations, it is usually a circumstantial human being in practice. For example, Katharine Graham, who refuses to comply with Nixon's pressure, or Jerzy Wójcik, who refuses to comply with Amazon's pressure.
In practice, in order for this editor or publisher to reject specified pressures, the structure of the institution employing him must give him specified an opportunity. We cannot trust only on his/her courage and nobility, even due to the fact that individual will yet replace him/her.
As the stormy past of “Gazeta Wyborcza” shows, it managed to construct it. I hope even the PiS voters agree that there is simply a Chinese wall in this editorial.
You disagree with Adam Michnik's decisions – that's great, I don't always agree. But you can't deny that he makes these decisions on his own. No 1 can effectively exert force on him, neither the president of any organization nor the president of any corporation.
How many editorial offices do we have in Poland? I'm not rhetorical, I'm truly curious.
They're not on the right side at all. There they don't even peculiarly hide that they're all in subjection to Novgorod and/or Obate. They admit that this is the case and answer that "it is the case everywhere."
Certainly not everywhere. But where too the election?
So I will conclude with a conventional appeal. You may not like “Gazeta” for that, that, siamto and that. But Poland needs a average that can compose critically about Amazon even if Amazon advertises in it.
Woe to us if we stay only with the media, in which the editorial office drapes before 1 or the another president.
