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When I write on this blog about the short-term events, sometimes of little consequence, I sometimes thousands (last – four thousand), and always hundreds of comments. For that at least three-quarters hejtów anonymous trolls. Some, moreover, as the punch. Belt robot. PiS and so. Nationalists have the cash. A week ago, I crowed about the culture. The state relations – art. Seriously and with the prospect for generations. About what actually decide whether Poland for half a century will be co-player on the European stage, whether tangle will be in dusty backstage. Comments were four. A thousand times less than for a few days before reproduced the text of the ad hoc issues. Testimony era.

The fundamentals in the country’s cultural politics I thought two things: state patronage and conflict management responsibility Public money and creative freedom. Axiological foundation of the state cultural policy in Europe is that the art market is not the end should be governed by the law of supply and demand, there should always be subject to the laws of the open market and not return on capital is its sole purpose. Culture and investments in culture, especially in creativity, but also for the maintenance and sharing of cultural heritage is also, and perhaps first, building human capital. Just as in general education, as in the culture, you should be interested, not only the wallet opened the way to commune with art. In short – that the state should be concerned that each musician Jack found his way to the Philharmonic. Yes, the market should co-finance the arts, but in many areas of creativity, virtually all except the film and the book (in part), only as supplementary support the development of creative source of financing. The market fulfills a vital role but always verifying the accuracy of the decisions of state patronage. For work in building human capital is indifferent, how many recipients are co-financed by the taxpayer art. Funded by public television movie that will look only to the artist himself and his loved ones, it is not the best investment of the state.

The difficult challenge for cultural policy is the accuracy of decisions of program and responsibility for public funds. It is a matter of creative freedom and the question of responsibility for the state money. I wrote that art must often stay ahead of their time, to inspire, provoke, argue with her the recipient of the most important things about the values ​​of the dominant attitude, of a way of life. Dialogue, in the case of the debate about art, is a concept that does not miss, constantly and persistently present not by accident, but because he thought provoking art should not completely diverge with social expectations. Or, gently – with social readiness of its reception. About this I wrote on this blog last week, referring to the example of the theater.

Today at the public media. The biggest and the most important state cultural policy, because of the size of the audience, a cultural institution, or at least it should be – public television. It’s not just a big audience, but also the financial possibilities incomparable to any other national cultural institutions.

are in Polish politicians who deny her need. I draw your attention to the fact that in societies better than the Poles coping with them better than we were managing their own country, the economy, the cultural community building and national stability of institutions – public television have most of the media pie. In the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, the Nordic countries are often the first choice of the viewer. It’s a matter of money, quality, reduce or forgo advertising, human resources, habits.

are in Poland politicians who think that TVP never really could become a public medium. That will always remain the party. There is no evidence, at least in relation to culture, that it must be so. For sure this does not happen institution of the common good if no one will try this I do. If the next cohort of party politicians will only pull it out of his hands. Devastating the occasion not only to its quality and reliability, but also the importance for their own interests through systematic shedding viewers.

I’m from the generation that remembers the golden, as far as culture, 70s television. Gold, in relation to culture, 60s, despite the exercise of power by Wladyslaw Gomulka, deserving of faithful service to communism and because of its relationship to culture nickname gnome. Golden years despite censorship and the power of the hegemonic party. Although essentially limited sovereignty. Each guess who as I remember those times, regardless of their relationship to the political system and today’s ratings then admits that he never later the television was not as significant not only to the audience (no alternatives), but also the value of a national cultural institution like 70s paradox – despite censorship, the most prominent Polish artists, especially the creator of the theater, documentary, reportage and cabaret (sic) then had more opportunities to develop their mission and talents than today, in a free, democratic Poland.

Security systems and people trafficking. Today’s generation of politicians do not really deserve these freedoms that the previous generation on the tray they reported. TVP is the arena of party fights not because it must be so, but because such politicians we have today. For the time Andrew Drawicz presidency, in 1989 and 1990, even though TVP was a government institution less there was in it the government, the party and government, than today. From the people – their culture, responsibility, imagination, class – depends on more than the regime.

What should be done to give TVP nature of the national cultural institutions? Not about paper, about the name or nickname, but about content. What to do to television today, nicknamed the public has become a national cultural institution, not partisan institution propaganda and historical policy. I reserve this because today the Law and Justice announces that he wants just such changes that will make TVP national institution. This is not true. PiS wants to TVP has been totally subordinated to the Law and Justice. “The National,” her character is a smokescreen. Just like in Orwell in “Animal Farm” where the political police ministry called the Ministry of love, and the War Ministry of the room.

The easiest way is with money. Just restore public funding generous enough to venture out of the national television advertising market pressure. Fee charged along with the annual settlement of PIT (or the corresponding taxes) could be within ten zlotys a month. After the former shares of Donald Tusk, who irresponsible statement, then passivity undercut finance public television and radio, to restore their funding from sources pair – tax encounters a sharp public opposition. Sometimes, however, the ruling should pick up the gauntlet. The whole Europe is actually public television. It is important not only for cultural identity and for the community, but also for the security of the state and for its stability.

There will, however, public acceptance to fund public television (and radio), if they remain under the strong influence of political parties. Television and radio public the names must really become public. I suggest subjecting them to supervision body (the authority) similar into some part due to the mode of his appointment to the Constitutional Court. The essence of this mode would be: a unique and very long term, appointed by the president members presented him to choose lists of candidates elected in the manner prescribed by the relevant bodies (PAN Conference of Rectors, ZAiKS, ZASP, Writers’ Union and other unions creators), rotating in some parts of the year in the year, raw and high competence criteria of candidates, determining certain amounts of professional representation (journalists, critics, artists, managers of culture, scholars, a specific group of retired politicians and statesmen – eg. former prime ministers, presidents of national courts, the ministers of science, culture, education, justice) and the introduction, fundamental issues, including personnel matters and the assessment mission undertaken high threshold qualified majority necessitating the grating to the positions of the majority instead of a simple mechanism. It would be a body of several dozen (osiemdziesięcio- rather than czterdziestoosobowe), a kind of regional council public media. It could be called the Council of Public Media Trust. I imagine that participation in such a body would be honorable. This is not just a matter of costs (large size!), But also motivation. Final domestic achievements, and not the career ladder. Honor, not profit.

The rest, as far as boards of directors, directorates different – there should be so, as the institution operates today management contracts in the law on cultural activities. So the relatively long term, calling in advance, thorny road to early dismissal from the function.

In relation to rules and the proportion of manufacturers emitted program could remain in force regulations in force today of the Law on Television and Radio. Amounts Polish and European amount. Certain brakes for imports.

Not everything should be constantly blow up. Just when the air blows from the media political parties.