Where's the media bill? Window for Media

There were already assumptions, first draft, encouragement to comment and proposals. 170 NGOs commented on the form of the Public Media Act. Then the silence fell as if the fire under the boiler was missing. Where's the media bill, what's going on with it? In the meantime, a change took place on the seat of the Minister of Culture, and those liable for the preparation of the Media Act were given fresh tasks, and the fresh liable had no time to deal with the bill.

Marta Cienkowska, the fresh minister, may have cast in the ether that the bill will shortly go to the Sejm. It will fail, due to the fact that before that the bill must "stand on government". possibly this is simply a slip of the tongue, due to the fact that already in early October, the minister, in a revised narrative, announced a public presentation of the bill by the end of this month, this year. The Minister does not throw words at the wind, so on the last day of October she presented something that is not yet the bill, but the assumptions of this document. In these assumptions there is nothing different – alternatively a replay from earlier versions of the Act already presented. due to the fact that is it fresh to guarantee that public media must be depoliticised and that authorities, i.e. the boards of radio, tv and agency companies, including the KRRiT, must be selected through transparent competitions? Well, possibly the apolitical evidence of the candidates to the authorities is fresh air. Candidates should besides be experts in mass media. Their usefulness and competence will be assessed on the basis of cognition and at least 5 years of experience in creating or applying media law. The criteria are fine, but the party's penalties are already in question. Why can a associate of the political organization compete in the chair of the president of tv after 5 years and a associate only after 10 years? What is the reason for this? The answer will come to wait, due to the fact that the final form of the bill is inactive long.

Minister Marta Cienkowska announced at the presentation that the task would now be subject to public consultation, and in early 2026 – to the Sejm. The next months of expectations and no certainty as to whether certain proposals, specified as the financing of public media from the state budget (2.5 billion), the liquidation of the National Media Council and the expiry of the National Broadcasting Council and the establishment of a fresh NRA in an increased 9-member composition, will last the trial of time. It is besides worth noting that any of the proposed laws are inflamed, even explosive. This could be the reason the bill won't see the president's signature. The president may not support the shortening of the word of office of the current KRRiT and it is not known how he will respond to the liquidation of the National Media Council invented and adored by the Law and Justice.

Minister Maciej Wróbel – to make it a small more fun in the ministry for his work on the media bill – has doubts as to whether the president will sign the bill. There are suggestions that Minister Marta Cienkowska should go to the president to consult the draft media bill before it takes place in the Sejm. If the president likes to know everything and to decide before parliament, as in the years rightly passed organization practice, why not try. A fresh approach, an old solution.