Modern fishing press in Poland

Jan Marek Kochański

This article discusses 15 fishing magazines of national scope. It characterizes their content and ways of achieving their publicist goals. Following is an analysis of their fate on the press market as well as discussion of the probable reasons for their success or failure on the market. In the article lists are all chief editors and editorial teams which created the magazines including the time periods of their work. Moreover, discussed is the role of the editorial teams and their influence on the fishing content level presented in each magazine. The article particularly focuses on the errors made and lack of, not just fishing, knowledge presented. This, in turn, influences the consciousness, abilities, mentality and fishing ethics of the average reader, the fisherman. In this area, the Polish press has got a lot to improve as for generations it has been impoverished in the name of ideology and deprived of elites and intellectual motivation.

KEYWORDS

fishing, editorial teams, chief editors, associates, programme line, fishing knowledge, factual errors, ownership conditions