Public television is not public. Interview with Peter … – Newspaper Pomeranian

Viewing Mr. TVP?
Yes, of course.

Without emotions?
I put some effort into it, that appeared in the distance.

After reading your books begs the question – Who owns the national television?
This solution is largely commercialized. A large part of the programs is bought by private entities. TVP has done a lot in practice to become a TV commercial. Firstly, therefore, it belongs to TV advertisers, and thus addressed her actions age group is from 16 to 49 years. This is one aspect of the case. On the other hand – TV belongs to a relatively closed environment of journalism, which has its very poor concept of society, the Church and the economy. Unfortunately, this idea has little in common with the sensibilities of most Poles. This image seen through the eyes Polish well-heeled residents of large cities. Eyes “stars” running programs and from the perspective of their salaries. Public television certainly is not public.

In your book you describe television as a structure in which the main management tool is fear. And phone calls from unidentified closer to the centers of power.
journalists on television are already fairly well formatted by the system and do not need them to spend even longer commands. Themselves know what to think and what authority to serve. But it is not only for TVP. Please note that journalists TVP, TVN and Polsat freely choose the same topics to the news, even if they are irrelevant topics. Everyone wants to be original and unique, and in practice they are all alike.

What machina their formats?
standards dictate TV celebrities. Most want to be like Krasko and Lis. If we add to this fight rats, we have a picture of TVP. It is a specific fight rats in the employment structure, a little different from ordinary corporations because “rats” in TVP must move in a space marked by politics and internal arrangement of sympathy and antipathy, shaped on television for decades.

But celebrities are also a product of television. What mechanism operates in awarding contracts celebryckich?
Roughly speaking – are key tabloids and two logs. The journalist nominated by gossip media automatically also becomes a celebrity on TV. Chances journalists identified by the colored newspaper on 20-30 thousand. contracts immediately grow. Contracts celebryckie are of course completely arbitrary – big money get “famous”. The criterion of competence is secondary. In practice, these are money for the efficient reading a few sentences from the prompter. On a scale presenter of the journalistic craft work it is one of the easiest. It’s a job much easier than the robot reporter or publisher. Tadla, Ziemiec or Kraśko are not geniuses of journalism and, moreover, does not require a lot from them. Therefore, these exorbitant fees solidarity strike in journalism and basic intuition regarding justice.

There is still an objective measure – viewership.
– viewing argument is not entirely true. Best evidenced by the example of Hanna Lis, at the time of the Panorama audience declined significantly. In addition, the irony is that television pays for celebrities who, through TVP to Launch. As Tomasz Lis, who for years has been intensely promoted by TVP.

Money has always been a bone of contention for Woronicza.
TVP is sick employment system. If the three months do not get any orders, it – even though part-time – you’re out of work. Therefore, at the end of the month many workers circulating through the corridors of the channel to channel with horror in her eyes, to get orders even at 20 zlotys. Employment in TVP so it is very unstable, the number of jobs steadily reduced. A growing group of people working on the principle of compulsory self-employment and other junk contracts. The employment structure makes TVP operates on the border of law. In my opinion, Juliusz Braun should bear the consequence for this policy, because the TV ceases to be an institution that has its journalists, cameramen, editors, etc. Series, and even journalism are no longer produced by TVP. It is aware of the destruction on TV.

You write about the omnipresent fear on television corridors.
It was this sick employment structure translates into an atmosphere of fear and adversely affects the quality of the offer for viewers. Someone who will refer critically to the quality of materials issued on the air immediately treated as enemy threat. No wonder that television has ceased to enrich society. Journalists are stud professional group, although it should be open and critical. Such people on TV are very few, because public television is not like uncomfortable topics. For example, towards the pontificate of John Paul II on TV does not have any criticisms or questions. You will not find you difficult questions about the history of Polish. Mindless bleaching Dominates history of our country. We pretend there are no problems, luscious produce greeting cards, which sometimes are of lower quality than the Stalinist propaganda. If the TV has a list of holiness and authorities, which under no circumstances be touched, whether it is surely a democratic state television? What sadder, it’s not about instruction from the political authorities, but says the self-censorship by journalists themselves.

You exaggerate throwing all into one boiler.
Yes, you may feel especially the difference between older and younger journalists. Among the elderly is sliding on top of things is, however, sometimes some internal opposition. Many senior journalists working slower, but with more emphasis on technique. In their work you can still see the remains of the journalistic ethos. Young people, I call in the book “bubkami” are blindly gazing on TVN24. They want to make materials effectively, quickly, reliably and not necessarily substance. They treat TV like any corporation – you create a product that sell well, and its quality is secondary. Therefore invariably it produces a “political shambles”, to which the best Niesiołowski to invite Stefan and Joachim Brudzinski. The programs built on such a scheme effectively rule out debate on important issues, such as unemployment and income inequality.

For years the sidelines of the television talking about the political division of TVP. Is parties still divided into channels?
Generally, this division still exists. Associated with the various political options kajeciki publishers have their names. As for economists or psychologists, they are identical names, different names of politicians. If ruled option associated with the SLD, the leaders of this party were greeted with honors by the management, as it was with Jaroslaw Kaczynski when he was in power. Leaders of the ruling party has no chance to ask difficult questions, because they come only to friendly journalists who meet them questions. The transmission of all channels is very close – on TV governs a system that has a common position on most issues.

You invented a patent for healing TVP?
These ideas are nothing new. The first is to move away from financing television advertising, because advertisers are not neutral, they have their expectations towards the television. This system works in many countries. The rest is already in the hands of a good executive who would be able to break the authoritarian management scheme. In my view television missionary is one who is able to go against the tide, be critical also to “recognized authorities”.
most important, however, that the TV was able to hear what is important for society. Unfortunately, in this respect, even the politicians are better than journalists. When I go to the session of parliamentary committees, I hear that they are on these subjects actually fiercely discuss. Unfortunately, as soon as there are journalists, level of debate radically reduced. Because such journalism spoils the policy in Poland.