And so, with the virus spreading, most of Poles stay at home. The internet is full of pictures of empty cities. Luckily, there is plenty of streaming services to choose from, including katoflix.pl, the Polish answer to Netflix that streams only Catholic materials. But pandemia is pandemia, #stayathome is #stayathome, but the political show must […]
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Meanwhile in Cuckooland 119
So President Duda did it. He signed the controversial bill providing extra funding for the PiS propaganda in TVP. Yeah, for propaganda. OK, TVP offers also many valuable programs, but its financial situation is actually not that bad: it’s true that many people fail to pay their TV license fees, but, unlike for example BBC, […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 77
For a few days Polish internet had been flooded with fake screen grabs from TVP’s flagship information program “Wiadomości”. This was yet another instance of PiS learning in a hard way about the power of internet and how “Streisand effect” works. See, public television in Poland have always been politicized, and accusation of it being […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 42
Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far If you were thinking that Poland is a country of absurdities only because of recent political developments, you were wrong. The absurdities are rooted much, much deeper, and a recent case, that stormed the media […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland: RIGHT WING MEDIA SPECIAL
Click here to see most recent part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far On Tuesday, in the first anniversary of the first one, another “Black Umbrella protest” had happened. Polish women again took to the streets to protest not only attempts to tighten already tough anti-abortion laws, […]
How propaganda works
Frankly speaking, I face a dilemma here: should I tackle this rubbish on, generating more visits to the right wing propaganda sites, or should I ignore it? I’ve decided, that from time to time I will do some little debunking of the right wing rubbish. Of course I am not that naive to think, that […]
Britons: give me a blowjob* and translate correctly!
Let’s state the obvious: there is an elephant in the room. Britons cannot into languages. Of course, there is many who speak more than just English, but in general, Britain is all about English. Average Briton can live all his life with virtually no contact with foreign languages. There is virtually no foreign music in […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 9
Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far I got a feeling that that last week, when government did not embarrassed Poland was just calm before the storm. They needed some time before they hit again, they needed to regroup, think about […]
Good morning, Mr Spokesperson.
I haven’t seen so good interview in Polish TV for a long time. It has begun like a Hitchcock movie – from earthquake. And after that it was only getting better. “My guest today is Jakub Stefaniak, spokesperson of PSL. I warlmy welcome you, Mr Spokesperson” – begun his morning program in the government controlled TVP […]
How anti-Muslim hysteria is being spinned up in Poland
It turns out that you don’t have to do much. It’s enough just to place a suggestion, slight reticence, perhaps even without any wrongdoing in mind, and the shit surfaces immediately. Let’s see how it works on the case study of a news story on the Polish portal onet.pl regarding an event that has happened […]