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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Anti-award for journalist unmerited
Wojciech Cieśla, editor of the daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, has been awarded an anti-award entitled "Vulture of the Year" by the Polish Journalists' Association for a poorly-researched interview that was part of a report on a politician who Cieśla accused of having illegal funds in tax havens. Journalist Monika Olejnik criticises the anti-award in Cieśla's paper: "I simply can't understand what could have moved the Polish Journalists' Association. It has given its anti-award to a journalist who was misled and who then publicly apologised for what he'd written. This prize is normally given to people who violate the profession's code of ethics. The fact is that sometimes situations arise which are very difficult to read, the outcome of which one simply can't foretell. If it then turns out that the material fails to hold water, the journalist has no option but to apologise."
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Changing Polish-American relations
In light of the negotiations on the planned missile defence shield, journalist Monika Olejnik reflects on the changing relations between Poland and the United States: "For us, America is no longer a promised land, and the dollar is no longer a god. We are in the EU and that gives us the strength we lacked just ten years ago. Today our strength is Europe, and America should understand once and for all that that entitles us to respect. Today Poland is a spokesperson among the countries of Eastern European, and we show the way forward. The Polish president struggled for the enlargement of the Union to the east. The Americans do not seem to have noticed that things have changed in recent years. Barack Obama still counts the UK, France and Germany as his most important allies in Europe, and forgets about Poland. There were times when the Poles might have seen that as a tragedy, but today we tend to consider it a lapse, because we have shed our complexes. We know who we are, what we have achieved, and we know our history. ... It is high time the Americans understood that they no longer play the leading role in Polish hearts."
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