Процесс представления политики в Польше средствами массовой информации как эпистемологическая проблема
The process of imaging politics in the Polish media as an epistemological issue

Summary/Abstract: The paper reflects on the issue of the epistemological limitations present in the process of the imaging of political reality in the media in Poland. Referring to the theories of reference and of description, the author tries to answer the question of what the image of political reality expressed in the media coverage consists of. He concludes that, apart from the attempt to reflect factual reality in the image of politics presented by the media, there emerges a particular journalistic and political construct of this reality, which is an apparent reality. Therefore, the category of truth usually fails in media communications concerning the field of politics. It can therefore be expected that traditional realism, which finds expression in the factuality of the media on the one hand and their morality on the other, will provide two pillars to support the image of political reality which is presented, interpreted and commented on in the media. This should not, in principle, be naïve realism, which promotes the cognitive spontaneity of an individual over reflection and analysis, or spiritual realism, which seeks the truth about reality solely in human spirituality.

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