International corporations are the target of the restrictive Media bill

Aleksandra Jakubowska, the head of the prime minister's political office who spoke to the Rywin Commission on Saturday said she is responsible for the shape of the radio and television bill. She admitted that the secretary of the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV) Włodzimierz Czarzasty and TVP president Robert Kwiatkowski had several times discussed the planned amendments with her, but it did not affect the contents of the draft. At the same time, she said that by proposing antimonopoly regulations the government did not fear the monopolist practices of Gazeta Wyborcza publisher Agora, but it wanted to protect the national media market against international media magnates such as Silvio Berlusconi who will be keen to take it over after 2004. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 12; Puls Biznesu, p. 32) A.Z.