Poland's Government Tightens Its Control Over Media
Critics say the ruling party overhauled public media to serve as a mouthpiece and a state-backed oil refiner's purchase of a newspaper chain brings more outlets under party loyalist control.
Journalist Mariusz Kowalewski noticed something was amiss when his editors came to him with a new assignment: follow an outspoken critic of Poland's ruling party with a drone.
"The idea was to send this drone over to his house in order for him to notice it and to feel threatened, like he was being watched," Kowalewski recalls. "This was an intimidation method straight out of communism."
The order came from his editors at TVP, Poland's largest broadcaster which oversees a vast network of public television and radio stations.
Kowalewski says he sabotaged the plan by giving the drone operator
