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Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]
@Lenka
The great thing however is that TVP restricted itself mostly to Television. As a person who avoids using TV other then for streaming movies/series.
I have had very little presence of TVP or PiS in my life. The few things I have watched from TVP is via it's YouTube channel or small clips (which is good enough dosage).
PiS and TVP are straight to the point of criticising the opposition or foreign affairs (but fairly toxic in it's only constant criticising environment, so having a large distance to it is necessary)
I cannot fathom people mostly/only watching TVP. It's mind boggling to me.
The opposition has multiple media channels to contact and hear from (rzeczpospolita, Gazeta wyborcza, express, TVN, republika, TV Trwam and media narodowe) no matter if it's left side or right side of politics, religious or secular opposition.
TVP is a public newsnetwork, so naturally it will have a strong connection to it's government and in having a monopoly in broadcasting governmental information but, also views and has a higher chance of hiring people of governmental background or those connected with governments main party (there can be coslition governments, but main party is the tendancy as far as I know).
Having a situation with all/most media being one sided without room for certain sides of the political spectrum radicalizes the political scene and creates polarization.
In the U.S.A, having very strong media on side of republicans or Democrats creates a very strong and visually obvious divide, but gives a obvious choice of Fox news or CNN regardless of governmental spending. Unless somebody is outside of the "Democrats" or Republican" information Boubble it's a very stable political envirement that can afford a lot of instabity that other countries are unable to afford, to other countries astonishment, beeilderment but also fear. Cause they know deeply from within that they have no chance of upholding anything like that long term. (Think of monopoly of media and to what Great lengths Russian Federation and Illegitimate peoples party in China goes to control and limit information).
Poland is actually one of few exceptions within Europe that allows and has great deals of trouble with shutting down spread of information, mainly due to politicians voicing openly their opinion about most things. That in other countries politicians mostly keep to themselves and do not voice out loud.
Stigmatisation with belonging to a certain political party is not as strong as it used to be, it was far more the opinion of being a "burak" by voting PiS in the past. That has changed however, city living people tend to be fairly against PiS in general vs people living in the countryside.
Many news channel in the west seem left-wing or leftist and even newspapers or political persona who declare themselves conservative or right wing sound leftist due to a broad shift towards leftist type of speech and mentality.
