Między wolnością a upolitycznieniem mediów publicznych
Between the freedom and politicisation of public media

Summary/Abstract: The occurrence of media politization in Poland is a very essential threat to their independence. Public media act their fundamental part in field of representation of public interests e.g. diversity, independency, reliability and completeness of information. Public radio and TV broadcasting implement their public mission and form civil society. The duty of public mission implementation by the public media arises from the polish Radio and Television Broadcasting Act. In face of the occurrence of commercialization and politization, there are, in the fact, no guaranties of public mission implementation.Public media enable legitimization of politicians using media, what collides with independent position of media organizations. The tendency of media to free from any political control stands opposite to tendency of politicians to have an influence on the contents of media (media politization).The Republic of Poland is a legal democratic state. In aspect of social communication, there is a fundamental right to freedom of press and freedom of speech. In scope of representation of public interests, the essential part play autonomic public media and independent journalists.The article is an introduction to the analysis related to the mechanism of excessive public media politization in Poland. The author uses a normative approach and a method of empirical quantitative research – an anonymous questionnaire conducted among journalists of regional media. The main research objective is to analyse the conditions of independence of public media and journalists in Poland, in the context of the political process.Constitutional guarantees of freedom of press find no reflection on reality, particularly in scope of public media. Present legal and financial status of public media condemns their organs to political dependence and balancing between public mission implementation and necessity of income gaining.

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