Political parallelism of Polish weeklies of opinion on the example of the dispute about Lech Walesa in 2008

Wojciech Furman

English version of the article

The case chosen for analysis shows a clear relation between the arguments raised by political actors on their internet homepages and those presented by journalists in the three main Polish weeklies of opinion. However, it was not a full parallelism because the clear division between the accusation and the defense, as seen in the arguments of the political actors, was mitigated or made sharper in the journalists’ publications.

KEYWORDS

political parallelism, pluralism of media system, weekly of opinion