Poland Calls for Media Ownership Changes Amid Rift With U.S.
- Senate speaker says foreign media ownership ‘isn’t healthy’
- Ruling party repeatedly accused foreign-owned media of bias
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Poland renewed its call for a “re-Polonization” of foreign-owned media amid a rift with the U.S. about pressure on local broadcasting group TVN SA, which is controlled by Discovery Inc.
Foreign ownership of the media “isn’t healthy,” Senate Speaker Stanislaw Karczewski told Rzeczpospolita daily in an interview Thursday. Earlier this week, ruling party officials criticized the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher, over her support for TVN, which accused the government of intimidating its journalists.