State television is overwhelmingly biased towards government states report

An internal public television (TVP) report revealed that TVP favors the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Polish Peasants Party (PSL) at the cost of other political parties. Such reports on program content are prepared every month by the TVP Program Policy and Coordination Office and are sent to National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV). Zycie daily analyzed February's issue of the report, in which it is said that during the month under study the SLD-PSL coalition occupied 70% of broadcasting time which covered political parties. The Civic Platform (PO) only had 5% of the broadcasting time, the Law and Justice party (PiS), 4% and the Polish Family League (LPR) had just 3%. According to the law on radio and television and the 1994 order of KRRiTV, the public media should "portray the whole diversity of domestic and foreign events," and should "present the standpoints of political parties in crucial public issues in a reliable way". "This data is no surprise for me. It only confirm that TVP is subordinate to the government coalition," said Iwona Sledzinska-Katarasinska from PO. (Zycie, p. 6), M.T.