Poland's state broadcasting authority has received multiple complaints over the way state media covered a huge anti-government protest over the weekend, an official said Tuesday.
Organizers estimated that 500,000 people took part. The number is impossible to verify but the march stretched for kilometers through the streets ofTVP, which has long vilified Tusk in its reports, said there were no more than 150,000 people.
The spokeswoman for the National Broadcasting Council, Teresa Brykczynska, told The Associated Press in an email that the council had received 12 complaints alleging “a lack of pluralism, of objectivity, violation of media law, lack of live coverage of the march and over the content of news tickers.”
In another incident reported by Polish media, a TVP reporter on the spot covered up his station’s logo on his microphone with his hand while interviewing participants, hiding his broadcaster’s identity. When he went on air, the logo was visible.These reactions reminded older Poles of how the communist authorities used the same technique to falsely minimize the appearance of huge crowds for the Polish pope, St. John Paul II.
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