Poland: Prize for Biased Coverage of Economics · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Our Man in Gdansk wonders whether it's appropriate to award journalists for “defending the principles of market economics independently of political circumstances”: “I disagree with the none-too subtle implication that running an economy is apolitical. If economics is removed from the domain of politics, as GW, Reuters, the Polish National Bank and the Association of Polish Journalists seem to think, it means that the plebs cannot influence it. And they moan about low voter turn-out…”