Partisan postings by the National Broadcasting Council

Poland's National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT), whose members were named by the country's former conservative government, has decided on new programme councillors for the country's regional media. The liberal Gazeta Wyborcza takes a critical view of the process: "This is a blatant example of partisanship. Of course you can play it down and say the programme councillors aren't all that important and only have an advisory function. Nevertheless the KRRiT will very shortly name the boards of directors of TVP [Polish state television] and the Polish Radio. And they exercise ... a real influence over the public media. Do we want these groups to go on being constituted as they have up to now? ... These people will rule the media until 2012 or longer. Because if the KRRiT is not renewed by then it will once more name the directors - for another three years until 2015. In this way the coalition ... that was voted out in 2007 will go one ruling the public media for years to come."

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