As usual, it is hard to comment on the proposals of the Law and Justices, due to the fact that what in writing does not agree with what is on the language. Commenting on the proposal in the programme, “the Act on the position of a professional journalist”, Marshal Terlecki said that it was “an effort to civilize this increasing complication of social media”.
It doesn't make sense. To regulate what social media do ("portals that frequently let themselves to do highly unlikable and unpleasant things") we do not request a law on the profession of journalist.
We request a bill regulating the activities of American corporations specified as Google, Twitter or Facebook. Only that in relation to these companies, PiS consistently declares a policy of servitude – they are inactive not to pay taxes, they are to proceed to be practically unpunished (a while further in the program PiS boasts about its "fight with ACTA 2".
Let's presume that the worst on Twitter are journalists (which I already think is simply a stretch). How will it be known that under the name “jorry123” there is simply a journalist, not a justice or a plumber? Mr. Marshal, this is not something we are going to bring up with the "Journal of Journalists", and here we request the "Twives Act".
The PiS program, in turn, talks about another problem: public trust. Now. I wrote on the blog, that the writer – unlike e.g. the vet – does not have specified status.
The "public trust profession" is erstwhile the legislator considers that a profession must be regulated by law, due to the fact that the free marketplace is not enough. erstwhile individual dies due to a medical error, it is no consolation that they will no longer be treated for it.
Do journalists require a akin bill? Isn't it adequate to “do not trust him – don't read him”? I'm not sure.
Similar solutions be in democratic countries, e.g. Italy. What makes me laughter is the word “Publicist‘means ‘author without journalistic credentials’.
Italian journalists like this system, because, among others, it guarantees to a degree public and equal earnings as part of forks defined by their organization. A akin solution would origin revolution in Polish media, but I do not know if the PiS would be ready for it.
The wage forks would, on the 1 hand, mean that Wildstein and Pereira would gotta lower themselves to the level of us small ones. And on the another hand, Sakiewicz couldn't have his own not pay.
For the last 4 years, the Law and Justice have shown that it has not been able to cooperate with existing local and regional governments – either territorial or sectoral. Kaczyński thinks he represents Pure Good, and in specified a model, all autonomy is suspicious (if individual refuses to submit that means that he is Pure Evil).
Almost all group that has any form of statutory independency (judges, doctors, academics, advocates, teachers, filmmakers...) entered into conflict with the Law and Justices. The PiS itself made a charge of that independency ("extraordinary caste", etc.).
I find it hard to believe that the PiS would like to give another group specified autonomy. Would he make his own enemy?
Irrespective of the axis of PiS/Antipis, many Polish journalists are against the thought of association itself. We'll meet our opponents in both camps. And self-government cannot be introduced against the will of the interested.
So it's most likely not about any self-government, it's about verification as in the state of war. Times change, D.A. Petrovich always on the committee.
The wars with those “castes” went poorly to PiS – and even writers admit it. There was no decisive triumph anywhere, but Pyrrus.
This war will be peculiarly difficult. We're in the Union. It is not forbidden to transfer the editorial board to Cieszyn or Frankfurt nad Oder. Journalists would not gotta go anywhere, they would be Warsaw correspondents of the Czech portal.
How would PiS want to fight this – the prosecution? Persecuting journalists employed in German or Czech media, and thus defended by those governments and unions?
For fear of the EU scandal, the PiS has already given up “repolonization”. Now he'd have the same squared.
I think that the president said something to Novogrodzka on the rule of "I'm giving up thought, and you guys get it." And his surroundings take courage to tell him it's impossible to do.
Previously, Leszek Miller's government had akin ideas. They had 40% support and seemed to have no 1 to lose to, but they had media against each other. They started talking about the regulation of the profession and the concentration.
Nothing came of it but the Rywin affair. Now, too, it will end with a scandal or a failure of the thought itself, as with "deployment and repolonisation".
