Good luck to the Polish.
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Every time I read the name "Donald Tusk" I imagine a walrus in Donald Duck's sailor suit.
Sure is a better image than the Donald we got over here.
I get a mental image of The Bad Donald crossed with Rick & Morty's Elon Tusk.
Nice to hear some solidly good news like this.
PiS got PiSSED OFF. Even today all newscasts in Poland are still called "Dziennik" by older people, including Wiadomosci.
No way, that's nuts
But, like, what is that and who is that
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Under Law and Justice, the broadcaster had been transformed into a far-right propaganda machine, jeopardizing European Union funding to the country for violating the EU's democracy standards.
The final broadcast of the old regime on that day shows a visibly shaken host telling viewers the signal for TVP is going to be abruptly shut off for the first time in Polish history and that the entire leadership had been fired.
The broadcaster went off the air for nine straight days as the old and new leadership of the country faced off and as Law and Justice parliament members refused to leave TVP Info's downtown headquarters.
The current showdown eventually led President Andrzej Duda, a Law and Justice ally, to veto the budget for the broadcaster, forcing the Tusk government to declare TVP bankrupt and starting a liquidation process.
On one evening, the program carried an investigative story revealing that commentators used by TVP under the previous government were paid lucrative sums to parrot ruling party propaganda bullet points.
He points to how the station blew out its schedule to broadcast a live vote of no-confidence in the Tusk government's new culture minister for the changes that were made to TVP.
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