I am not out to gag and control the media says Prime Minister Miller

Responding to last Tuesday's Washington Post editorial, criticizing the Polish government over its attitude to the media, Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller said the government has no intent to take any shares in the Rzeczpospolita daily. According to the Washington Post, the government is trying to limit the independence and influence two of the most prestigious Polish newspapers, namely Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita. Writing about Rzeczpospolita, the American daily stated that "Polish journalists feel that the government is slowly moving towards taking control over the paper". Prime Minister Miller said this was a misunderstanding. Commenting on the dispute with Agora, the owner of Gazeta Wyborcza, which claims that the government is trying to limit ownership in the media, Miller said that the idea that the freedom of the press is at stake is false, adding that the government is not going to foster the profits of Agora at the expense of Poland. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) M.T.