KRRiTV to debate TVN's controversial interview with wanted criminal

The National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV) is planning to hold a meeting in order to decide its position on the controversial edition of Pod Napieciem aired by TVN last week. Marcin Wrona, the program's host, interviewed the leader of the infamous Pruszkow mafia, Mariusz Zielinski. Zielinski, who goes by the name "Slowik", is wanted by the police on criminal charges. "We will analyze the interview from the legal and social aspects and decide our position on the case," said chairman of the KRRiTV, Juliusz Braun. According to Jaroslaw Sellin, a KRRiTV representative, the interview was designed to give a criminal the opportunity to clear his name, and it demonstrated an irresponsible attitude by the journalist. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4; Zycie, p. 2) A.K.