Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers

I have, since while you scan the radio band in your car, there are typically three-to-five frequencies at which Radio Maryja is simultaneously broadcasted at the same time at any single location and it seems there is no place in Poland they cannot cover. Listening to them for 5-10 minutes makes you regret you are Roman Catholic and you start hating your own faith. This is like listening to Radio Tirana au rebours.

Merged: Gazeta Wyborcza losing readers.

Fakt has eclipsed Wybiórcza as Poland's top-selling daily. Super Express is in 3rd place. The only papers that have noted increased sales are Gazeta Podatkowa and Sport.

It turns out that fewer and fewer people reaching for " Gazeta Wyborcza " . The latest readership survey shows that in the period from December 2012 . Until May 2013 . On leadership position has changed , and the log Agora declined .

The information service wirtualnemedia.pl that the new leader of readership in Poland in the study PBC General was " fact " , ahead of " Gazeta Wyborcza " .

Kind of feel sorry for people who still read newspapers.
All news can be got for free in the Internet.
Twitter is prob the greatest source of news for me.

Although saying that I do subscribe to a few mags, but only in digital form. Don't see much point in continuing to use paper when it can be avoided.

It's a cultural thing. Sure you can take some glowing tablet-shmablet to bed and have it shine in your face, but some prefer a real magazine or newspaper. The feel, the rustle, even the smell of printer's ink as well as the general ambience -- those things also play a role.

There are people who enjoy getting away from it all on the bosom of nature without the bells of cellphones and other e-gagdetry to contaminate the natural surroundings and distract them from the beauty of God's good earth.

And yes there are also those who go on outings and bring along laptops, cellphones, MP3s and other e-junk and spoil things for those looking for peace and quiet and the music that rustling leaves, babbling brooks and songbirds provide. To each their own!

How big is the fall? Is it on par with the fall in the number of Radio Maryja listeners who go on that stupid pilgrimage of theirs, i.e. down by 80% in the space of six years?

The hiss of the flat iron, the plaintive cry of juvenile chimney sweeps, the sheer exhilaration of double declutching.

The media is changing - many people prefer to read in their iPads. Better for the planet too.

Worth mentioning that the GW website is the most frequented and influential by far of all the Polish newspapers' sites.

I understand the original Italian Fiat 500 (of the 1950s) required this. I have never owned a car that did. Have you? It's hard to concieve doing this 4 times (4-speed gearboxes back then), but I reckon one can get used to most anything.

I've driven one. An old (late 1940s) Rover.

A pain in the arse to have to do.

I know what you mean about the feel of a print edition - I always tend to read more with them rather than just skim, but I fear their days are as done as the gas mantle and the kind of radio that used to warm up before it started.

That's all nonsense, nostalgic crap in my opinion.
Imagine if people still watched VHS or Betamax, or used 4-track for their music. And don't get me started on vinyl. Hipsters and their feckin vinyl :P


There is no God, please stop bring it into every time something not relevant to religion.
Also, if you were getting away from it all, why would you read a mass produced ad-filled rag?
A book yes, that's stirs the imagination, but a newspaper? Hardly.


It is lovely once in a while for sure. However, taking a pic on your smartphone of your wonderful surroundings and sharing it with friends by sticking it on Instagram is a nice thing to do. too.

I don't miss newspapers at all, less ads on the Internet and in PDF/ePub versions of the subscriptions I get.
And like I said in a previous post, end Internet ads by installing adblock for your browser.

Books are a different thing though. I mostly read digitally now, but I have no prob forking out for an old book on Amazon or something. Try to get a first edition kind of thing. I think that's how books will go. Limited print runs to keep value up, but otherwise digital.

I see not only are you not able to spell the name of Warsaw's City President correctly, but also not the title of GW.

That is what it's called -- the Selective Gazette by those who have read into it and analysed their tactics and ruses. It's PC dictatorship all the way. And we all know what PC means -- leftist-liberal-libertine phobias, complexes, biases, prejudices and taboos passed off as 'progressivism'. Stalin also called what he was doing 'progressive'. Maybe that's no coincidence becuase Michnik and many other journalists of this rag have Stalinist family roots.

And sadly for one very frustrated American 'journalist', GW is rather selective about whom it hires, especially when it comes to those who spent the '70s and '80s collaborating with the commie regime. Still, hopefully he will get over it one day.

By you perhaps.

I know what you mean but did you know that valves in amps have made a commercial comeback, with a lot of musicians singing their praise because of their warm sound? I use gas mantles with a lantern in an electricity-free outbuilding. Great light, and gives out heat, too.

Pity about newspapers, but the internet is the way to go, as long as it's able to resist censorship and determined cyber-terrorists.

Although I see on the Warsaw metro more and more people with a Kindle or another e-reader...I very much prefer a real book.

It really does indeed. Lesław Maleszka is just one of examples :)))))

A man who went to prison for opposing the commies (unlike your beloved DuckBoy).


After it came out that he'd worked for the SB, how many articles did he write for GW? Oh yes, one single book review.

Never mind Greggy, better luck next time!

he was never in prison, he was only interned, signed his allegiance and was released, backed up on it, were interned again for one or two months

[quote=Harry]After it came out that he'd worked for the SB, how many articles did he write for GW? Oh yes, one single book review.[quote]

are you sure?

The most quoted paper is Rzeczpospolita, then Gazeta Prawna, then GW. Agora(GW) stock is at a all time low as is its reputation as news source. If it weren't for government ads in it, it would have folded long time ago. Even lemmings are turning away from its constant anti-Polish, anti-Catholic drivel.

As to Rz being the Great Leader's mouthpiece?

Clearly, you are not familiar with the Polish press. Don't feel bad, I'm not familiar with the Belgian press, and I refrein from making stupid statements about its political affiliations.

It's still the most popular quality paper and their website doesn't lack hits. The most respected too, with its only critics being denizens of the loony nationalistic fringe.

You live in a different world, so quality and respected might mean something different to you than to most people. The fact that they are losing readers by droves means that people are sick of making "homophobia," imagined fascism, racism, antisemitism, and anti-catholicism central issues in public debate.

The normal, educated, cultured world in Warsaw in PL. A certain type of pooterish suburban folks may huff and puff at anything out of their comfort zone, however GW's readership stats, both in the print version as well as online show that plenty of people do still like it.

If you consider losing readers and plummeting stock prices good news, so do I.

Actually I am, after living a long time in Warsaw, quite familiar with the Polish press. I even take a look at Nasz Dziennik from time to time, just for amusement.

Rz is definitely a PIS mouthpiece.

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Harry, Joni, straighten out your buddy, please. Remind him of Hajdarowicz, Presspublika, Gmyz, and whatever else he missed in the past year. He is making an ass out of himself. Don't abandon a comrade in need.

It tends to follow the market and since no other respectable newspaper will touch them they can see a niche in the market.


And absolutely apt for so many PiSuarzy.

You should go into politics with that command of doublespeak.