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2017-05-11
Are News and Current Affairs Programmes on TV Objective?
News and current affairs programmes on public service television (TVP) are generally seen as supportive of the government and the ruling party (64%), while programmes on TVN and TVN24 as supportive of the opposition (44%). However programmes on the Polsat and Polsat News channels are more often felt to be objective (46%).
All the broadcasters included in the survey are seen as less objective than five years ago, though it is public TV that has experienced the greatest drop in perceived credibility. It should be noted that when these questions were asked in 2006 and 2012 the news and current affairs programmes of all three of these largest broadcasters were most often seen as objective, whereas now only Polsat programmes are more often thought to be so, rather than taking sides in the political conflict.
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The above data comes from ‘Current Events and Problems’ surveys carried out in the period 2006–2017.