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  • 2021-08-17 (xsd:date)
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  • he said.That is misleading. The legislation, if it becomes law, could force TVN24, which is owned by the U.S.-based Discovery Inc. to sell its majority stake in TVN, which is Poland’s biggest independent news network. Thousands of Poles have protested the legislation, saying it is an affront to press freedom.Morawiecki has said the proposed law is needed to prevent Russian or Chinese media from taking over a Polish broadcaster". Perhaps. But the government has also had a habit of going after TVN24 and its journalists in recent years.Reporters Without Borders (RSF) (en)
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  • On August 11, the lower house of Poland’s parliament passed a contentious media reform bill that would ban non-European Union parties from holding a majority stake in Polish broadcasters or getting a broadcast license. Critics accuse Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, whose right-wing nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) is behind the proposed law, of trying to silence the news channel TVN24, which has done some tough reporting on his government and faced fines and threats.During an August 12 news conference, Morawiecki flatly denied targeting TVN, the channel's network. We do not have any intentions regarding a specific TV channel. It is just about tightening the regulations (en)
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