1. On April 23, 2018, two American congressmen of the Democratic Party, Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. David Cicilline, blackened Poland in an offensive open letter to Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan. They claimed that Poland is“glorifying Nazi collaborators and denying the Holocaust”. The derogatory letter was signed by 50 US congressmen. It was one…
Daniel Grynglas, a Polish-Jewish writer and a pro-Israeli activist living in San Jose, California, tries to forge a co-operation between Poland and Israel. Unfortunately, his “Can Israel make common cause with Poland?” strikes the wrong tone and distorts the history of Polish-Jewish relations. Polish Media Issues has asked Jan Peczkis, a Polish-American activist from Chicago to comment on…
By Chris Jeżewski (UK) and Marek Błażejak (Germany) The news services of international agencies like Associated Press and Reuters reach the desks of thousands of journalists around the world. Therefore they have a significant impact on how events are perceived by the public. Misleading and inaccurate reporting inevitably causes a misperception of events and can trigger hostile attitudes towards a person, institution or a state that was…
Polish Media Issues, niezależna, międzynarodowa grupa walcząca z fałszowaniem obrazu Polski w mediach, złożyła w dniu 29 listopada 2018 r. skargę do Szwajcarskiej Rady Etyki Mediów (Presserat) w związku z nieprawdziwymi i szkalującymi Polaków doniesieniami nt. Marszu Niepodległości szwajcarskiego dziennikarza gazety Sonntags Blick, Fabiana Eberharda. Eberhard stwierdził na Twitterze (zdjęcie poniżej), że 11 listopada 2018…
Polish Media Issues, an independent, international group fighting for accuracy in media coverage of Poland, filed on November 29, 2018, a complaint with the Swiss Press Council (Presserat). Our complaint was triggered by misleading and offensive reports of the Swiss journalist Fabian Eberhard from Sonntags Blick. Eberhard claimed on Twitter (picture below) that “200,000 nationalists…