By Alek Rybczynski, CFP's Poland Reporter ——Bio and Archives--November 3, 2024
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It's time for us all to realize that the mainstream media is a global corporation whose employees are required to be absolutely loyal, available and be ready to follow orders. The company's policy is the most important thing and there is no room for nuances, and even less for doubts and inquisitive questions. Enthusiasm is not even required of ordinary media employees, what is important is that they would follow orders in the belief that they are fulfilling the highest mission of transforming lies into a propaganda message.
You can quickly see that the propaganda served by the CBC in Canada and other mainstream media on the American continent, such as CNN and the New York Times, is cooked in the same pot as the news in Poland. It is supposed to poison minds in a similar way, although it is doused in a different sauce to suit the tastes and mentality of the audience in different parts of the world.
Hence, the head of the largest daily newspaper in Poland, ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, Adam Michnik, echoes the American ‘fake news’ that President Donald Trump is a modern Hitler. Michnik, once a respected oppositionist to the communist regime, was years ago exposed by the greatest contemporary Polish poet, Zbigniew........