Bosses at Poland‘s oldest state broadcaster have been removed and its news channel taken off air by Donald Tusk‘s new government.
The heads of TVP, Polish Radio and state news agency PAP were fired yesterday with the new Tusk-led coalition dismissing TVP as a propaganda channel that had been aligned with the Law and Justice (PiS) party – the nation’s previous ruling administration.
Responding, PiS’ head Jaroslaw Kaczynski condemned the Tusk government’s “illegal actions” and joined a protest at TVP headquarters in the Polish capital Warsaw overnight.
Last night, TVP Info, the 24-hour news service, symbolically changed its headline strap from red to black before being taken off air.
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