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Recently, onet.pl majority 75% stake was sold to the Axel Springer Media AG based in Zürich, Switzerland. The other 25% stake still belongs with the International Trading and Investments Holdings SA Luxembourg (ITI Group), which owns the TVN Group (TV and media). Enough with the stats.
I’ve been following the onet.pl news for over 15 years. Recently, the portal evolved into a cover-all aspects service with a strong emphasis on gossip, smut, and controversial topics. Whatever sells the advertisements? Right?
It wouldn’t be a big deal, considering what you can find on the Internet, but the worrying fact is that the portal misrepresents the U.S. social and economic reality. The portal influence on Poles is yet unknown but judging from the hundreds of comments left under most of the articles, Poles are reading and feeling very strongly about the information provided.
What do you think about the latest article called “Milionom zrujnowanych Amerykanów grozi głód” or “Millions of Americans face hunger”? Same article was also published on the Polish “The Times” site. The original article, “This is our nation too, say America’s ‘invisible poor’” by Rhys Blakely, published in British “The Times”, describes hundreds of residents of Crystal City, TX waiting in the food bank line. Really? The town with the population of 7,000 residents of mostly Hispanic decent, 97.1%, on the border with Mexico is used as a yard stick to show the economic state of the U.S.? Apparently so.
None of the reasons leading to this situation in Crystal City, TX are taken into a consideration. The education level, the job market, the overall situation of the Zavala county. For an average Pole who has never been to the U.S., this article is just a pure anti-American propaganda. After reading the comments, I’ve came to the conclusion that the propaganda works. I haven’t seen that many dumb and idiotic comments for some time.
Get a grip Poles, not everything on the Internet is black and white. Read between the lines, research, make up your own mind. Don’t let some owners of the website to dictate your point of view. Shades of gray people, shades of gray.
Criticial thinking will never become mainstream...
ReplyDeleteWith the abundance of news sources, especially personal blogs and twitter, I believe that more and more people will open their eyes. We have the tools, lets use them.
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