Polish minister: Closed state channel was propaganda tool of previous government

Polish authorities have liquidated state broadcaster Telewizja Polska because it served as a propaganda tool for the previous Law and Justice (PiS) government, Justice Minister Adam Bodnar told Politico, Report informs.

“We had to liquidate public television,” Bodnar said. “This will probably take some time to resolve, but the biggest problem was how to end the propaganda. We want TVP to be even boring, just a normal pluralistic version of society. Public media should never be a party propaganda instrument.”

The old management, backed by MPs from Law and Justice, tried to block the new people from getting into TV, radio and press agency offices.