Polish TV News Chief Quits Over Political Pressure.
Published:
31 August 1999 y., Tuesday
A senior Polish public television journalist has resigned in protest at political interference in the running of Poland_s most powerful news programs, a station spokesman said on Monday.Jacek Maziarski, the head of programming at TAI, state media_s news gathering arm, accused the leftist Peasant party (PSL) of pressuring his agency to give disproportionate air time to its political activities, Polish media said. "Director Maziarski said that he could no longer maintain the political neutrality of the agency so he resigned," TAI spokesman Pawel Sosnowski told Reuters. Maziarski was not available for comment on Monday. The political independence of public television has often been questioned in Poland. Successive governments have accused each other of filling senior management positions at the widely-watched channels with their representatives.
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
The heads of seven major Kazakh banks issued a statement on 2 December pledging support for President Nursultan Nazarbaev's policies and promising to stay out of politics
more »
EU ministers move forward on controversial data retention proposals
more »
The Russian leader is to meet Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and oversee the signing of six cooperation agreements, including defense, finance and energy accords
more »
The Senate has voted in favour of a government plan to ease access to the Swiss labour market for citizens of the ten new European Union member states
more »
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday held wide-ranging discussions with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin on bilateral, regional and international issues
more »
Estonia will participate in the European Union's (EU) battle groups that will be deployed in the future for the regulation of different crises
more »
Lithuanian parliament will cooperate only with democratically orientated Belarusian National Assembly, speaker says
more »
The Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers are to meet in Sofia soon, Armenia's minister Vardan Oskanyan said in interview with Public Television of Armenia
more »
Negotiators made a breakthrough in Ukraine's election crisis on Wednesday, with all sides concerned agreeing to new elections under terms stipulated by the Supreme Court
more »
Tokyo wants on board; Hosoda seeks veto power
more »