Free press watchdog calls for dismissal of KRRiTV and Kwiatkowski

Free press watchdog calls for dismissal of KRRiTV and Kwiatkowski The Center for Monitoring the Freedom of the Press (CMWP) has voiced demands for the dismissal of the head of TVP and all the members of the Polish Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV). "The first month of the work of the Rywin commission has revealed so many facts proving the weakness and unhealthy political ties of the media and has shown how little objectivity and i ndependence there is in TVP's coverage of the current events," claimed the CMWP. According to the body, any credit the media might have is tarnished by deliberately withholding from the public a documented case of large-scale bribery, as well as by the fact that a central figure in the affair, Robert Kwiatkowski, still holds the top chair in TVP. (www.pulsbiznesu.pl) J.K.