Poland’s new pro-European Union government has begun to wrestle control of the country’s state media and some other state agencies from the conservative party that consolidated its grip on them during their eight years in power.
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00:00 The new Polish coalition government has sacked the governing bodies of the public media,
00:06 television, radio and news agency, and appointed new faces. Broadcasting has been cut and programs
00:13 cancelled. The executive, led by Donald Tusk, justifies the decision as a way of putting
00:18 an end to the political control of the media by the previous conservative Law and Justice
00:24 Party.
00:24 The Law and Justice Party is accused by watchdogs and the opposition of using the media as a
00:31 tool for aggressive propaganda. On Tuesday, the Polish parliament passed a draft resolution
00:54 calling for the restoration of impartiality in public media.
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