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Press release
Warsaw, 13 November 2008
Jarosław Kaczyński – the great absentee?
In October Donald Tusk appeared on prime television news programs nearly eight times more
often than Jarosław Kaczyński. The leader of the biggest opposition party was not in the top
fifteen of most popular Polish politicians, a study by the Institute of Media Monitoring. The
issues on which politicians most often commented on the air are: the dispute between the Prime
Minister and the President about the make-up of delegation to the EU summit and news on the
financial crisis.
The Institute of Media Monitoring has published its latest “Polish politicians rankings” study. Analysed were
prime news programs broadcast by nationwide television stations: TVP1 (“Wiadomości”), TVP2 (“Panorama”),
TVN (“Fakty”), Polsat (“Wydarzenia”) in the period of 1-31 October 2008.
The winner of the October edition was Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who appeared on the above mentioned
programs 79 times. His runner-up was President Lech Kaczyński (72 appearances), and third on the list –
Zbigniew Chlebowski (52 appearances).
Chart 1.Politicians appearing most often
79
Tusk Donald
72
Kaczyński Lech
Chlebow ski Zbigniew
52
Olejniczak Wojciech
47
Gosiew ski Przemysław
36
34
Napieralski Grzegorz
Kow nacki Piotr
26
Szmajdziński Jerzy
20
Komorow ski Bronisław
20
Niesiołow ski Stefan
18
Schetyna Grzegorz
16
Religa Zbigniew
16
Graś Paw eł
16
Kurski Jacek
15
Drzew iecki Mirosław
15
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20
40
60
80
100
Source: IMM
In the last position are Jacek Kurski and Mirosław Drzewiecki, both having appeared 15 times. In the reported
period Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Law And Justice (PiS) made only 10 appearances which left him below the
top fifteen. Interestingly, provocations of deputy Janusz Palikot brought the fruit of numerous comments (26)
from politicians of various parties. Yet, Palikot himself appeared only 13 times in the monitored programs.
The party which has the biggest number of representatives in the study is Civic Platform (PO). Politicians of
Polish People’s Party (PSL), its coalition partner appeared on the air much more rarely. When it comes to
“Wiadomości”, “Fakty” and “Wydarzenia” the second place goes to PiS, which was most often represented by
Przemysław Gosiewski (36 appearances). On “Panorama” PO’s runner-up was Democratic Left Alliance (SLD).
The one who gave most comments on behalf of the party is Wojciech Olejniczak (47 appearances).
Chart 2.Commented issues
164
szczyt UE w Brukseli - spór na linii prezydent - premier
kryzys finansow y
127
kontrow ersje w okół reformy słuŜby zdrow ia
120
konflikt rządu z PZPN
57
kryzys w ew nętrzny w SLD i zmiany na lew icy
46
w ybory prezydenckie - sondaŜe i spekulacje
28
prow okacje posła J.Palikota
25
rok rządów PO
24
spraw a fałszyw ych zw olnień posłów
22
spraw a Ludw ika Dorna
19
emerytury byłych SB-ków
19
kto pojedzie na kolejny szczyt UE?
16
spotkanie D.Tuska z J.Kaczyńskim w spraw ie finansów
15
spraw a stoczni
15
cięcia w budŜecie Kancelarii Prezydenta
12
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
Source: IMM
Among the issues which politicians opined most often in October are: the conflict between the Prime Minister
and the President about the line-up of delegation to the EU summit and the plane (164 times), the financial crisis
(127), controversy over the health care system (120), the government’s conflict with the Football Association
(57), the internal crisis of SLD and changes on the left-wing. As regards the EU summit in Brussels, the most
comments were made by the persons involved in the dispute themselves, i.e. the Prime Minister and the
President. The former appeared on air most often in the context of the financial crisis as well. The problem of the
health care system reform was mainly touched upon by Zbigniew Religa and Grzegorz Napieralski. It is worth
paying attention to the fact that not all the news programs placed the main focus on the EU summit. At Polsat’s
“Wydarzenia” the most-widely commented issue was the financial crisis.
Politicians’ comments and opinions were aired on the prime news programs 901 times (295 times on TVN’s
“Fakty”, 232 – on Polsat’s “Wydarzenia”, 212 – on TVP1’s “Wiadomości” and 162 – on TVP2’s “Panorama”.
The Institute of Media Monitoring monitors over 900 press titles, 84 television and radio stations as well as
Polish resources of the Internet. IMM is a member of FIBEP – an elite association of 91 media monitoring
companies from 41 countries. Since 2002 the Institute of Media Monitoring has supported the Responsible
Business Forum.
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