After the government took the helm in the country, Donald Tusk changed his top positions in public media. The rotation of journalists on TVP and Polish Radio began. Many of the employees to date have moved, among another things, to the tv Republic and to WPolsce24 television.
A survey conducted by United Surveys for Virtual Poland asked respondents about their assessment of the reliability and quality of public media after the changes made. Of all respondents, 50.5 percent expressed a affirmative opinion. The consequence “strongly positive” pointed to 15.1%, and 35.4% rated the media moderately positive.
29.7% of survey participants spoke negatively about the fresh media. Of this 16.2 per cent indicated the option of "perhaps negative" and 13.5 per cent expressed an opinion powerfully negative. The deficiency of opinion on the subject declared 19.8% of respondents.
People who do not identify with any political group are divided in their assessments. In this group 42% of respondents assessed the changes in the public media positively; only 2% of them indicated the consequence "strongly positive", and 40% chose the option moderately positive. The negative opinion was expressed by 39%, including 37% responding "more negatively" and 2% "aggressively negative". 19% of independent voters are uncertain.
Supporters of the ruling coalition positively on public media
Sympathics of the current ruling coalition (KO, 3rd Road, Left) mostly measure the public media activity well after changes – as much as 76 percent of them express affirmative opinion. In this group, 30% indicated the consequence "strongly positive", and 46 percent assessed the media alternatively well. The negative opinion on the operation of public media is only 5%, all of which have chosen the option "more or little negative". There is no conviction of 19% of this group.
The other trend is observed among opposition supporters . In this group 60 percent evaluates changes in public media negatively – 38 percent of them expressed an opinion powerfully negative and 22 percent moderately negative. Only 18% of opposition sympathizers declare a affirmative assessment, where everyone chose a alternatively affirmative response. 22 percent of the group are undecided.
