Head of state television questioned over timing of Miller documentary

Juliusz Braun, the president of the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV) wrote an official letter to the head of state televsion, Robert Kwiatkowski, asking why TVP plans to broadcast a documentary about the daily life of Prime Minister Leszek Miller two days before the local elections. The film entitled Seven days of Leszek Miller's life is supposed to celebrate the first anniversary of the SLD-PSL-UP government coalition. The opposition claim that this program qualifies as a reality show because it shows the Prime Minister not only working, but also shaving, drinking coffee, picking up mail and signing documents. Several well-known journalists refused to participate in the documentary, although Joanna Racewicz, of TVP2's Panorama agreed. The question posed by the KRRiTV president about the coincidence of broadcasting the film on the eve of the elections has not been answered and all seems set that the film will indeed be broadcast next Friday, as exactly a year ago on October 25 the Prime Minister made his maiden speech. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) P.W.