In a furor over censorship, prominent broadcasters resigned and artists asked for the state-run radio station at the center of the controversy to stop playing their music.
New York Times
Monday, May 25, 2020
"Your Pain is Better Than Mine" Polish Censorship Row
A No. 1 Hit Vanished From Poland’s Charts. It’s Not Going Quietly.
In a furor over censorship, prominent broadcasters resigned and artists asked for the state-run radio station at the center of the controversy to stop playing their music.
New York Times
"“Your Pain Is Better Than Mine,” which on Friday had more than nine million views on YouTube, is a not-so-veiled censure of a privilege extended to a top politician during the coronavirus lockdown. Mr. Kaczynski, whom the song does not mention by name, was allowed a visit to a Warsaw cemetery in April while it was closed to the public. The visit took place on the anniversary of the Smolensk crash, in which Mr. Kaczynski’s twin brother, Lech, Poland’s president at the time, died. The opening of the cemetery especially for Mr. Kaczynski was sharply criticized on social media."
In a furor over censorship, prominent broadcasters resigned and artists asked for the state-run radio station at the center of the controversy to stop playing their music.
New York Times
2 comments:
Bieganski the Blog exists to further explore the themes of the book Bieganski the Brute Polak Stereotype, Its Role in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture.
These themes include the false and damaging stereotype of Poles as brutes who are uniquely hateful and responsible for atrocity, and this stereotype's use in distorting WW II history and all accounts of atrocity.
This blog welcomes comments from readers that address those themes. Off-topic and anti-Semitic posts are likely to be deleted.
Your comment is more likely to be posted if:
Your comment includes a real first and last name.
Your comment uses Standard English spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Your comment uses I-statements rather than You-statements.
Your comment states a position based on facts, rather than on ad hominem material.
Your comment includes readily verifiable factual material, rather than speculation that veers wildly away from established facts.
T'he full meaning of your comment is clear to the comment moderator the first time he or she glances over it.
You comment is less likely to be posted if:
You do not include a first and last name.
Your comment is not in Standard English, with enough errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar to make the comment's meaning difficult to discern.
Your comment includes ad hominem statements, or You-statements.
You have previously posted, or attempted to post, in an inappropriate manner.
You keep repeating the same things over and over and over again.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I can understand that this can be considered an issue. Than again, there were allegations of...non-legitimate upvoting (s.th like vote-buying,astroturfing and the likes) of the song. Anyhow, he is pretty famous now, so...win? What concerns me is, that, some years ago, a patriotic song (Zle Psy-Jestem z Polski or s.th along the lines) was pulled because the radio admins did not like it. Any nobody in the West was crying wolf. 2xstandards, I asssume. Because we hate Kaczynski and PiS.
ReplyDeleteBut, just to give you another perspective: In Germany, people were not allowed to visit their dying parents. Or to have decent burials. There is a Muslim-Kurdish Arab (so-called "Mhallamiye Kurds") mafia, sorry, "family clans" in Germany, the Miri clan. They let the police know that they don't care about any limitations. And the German authority was all like "yeah, but we are letting in only 20 at one go into the cementary so why is everyone so upset"? Compared with this the whole thing seem to be slightly blown out of proportions.
Oh, and Mr. Kazik said, that he does not want to be instrumentalized for any political goals. A true punk rocker, I guess.
The radio has been criticized by President of Poland and many journalists. The radio is one of tens if not hundreds of radio stations in Poland. The worst form of cenzorship in Poland is defamation politics of courts. Reach and influential people are able to control some informations.
ReplyDelete