Can we just continue fining them a million euros a day?
Getting tired of propping them up financially
Maybe journalists should stop treating Poland as if it were a military dictatorship to begin with?!?
Another daily anti Poland article.
This wouldn’t need to happen if coverage of this crisis was more objective.
Poland and Lithuania are under attack, yet many media are too busy blaming them for their response – from the push back policy to the detention of migrants – to look at the bigger picture. I guess it’s easier to cry over images of people “desperate” to illegally cross into Europe than explaining the consequences of letting them do so or focusing on what Minsk is doing for those wishing to return to their countries. Just pay attention to [the language and tone used by this CNN host in her interview with Lithuania’s interior minister](https://twitter.com/BeckyCNN/status/1460654389736189964).
As much as the Polish government should be criticised for its shift towards authoritarianism, in this specific occasion they probably don’t have much choice.
Which country you can wander off to military base, took photos and ignore orders to leave? Oh, and while doing it refuse to present any form of ID stating you are a press, not even silly hi-vis vests, and in the end refuse to answer who you are and what are you doing there?
I am for letting press into freely watching issues with border crossing, but those guys played fool and probably on purpose, so I do have very little sympathy for consequences their choices. I also wish them they will be able to squash their convictions in appeals, as being reckless shouldn’t be always treated as crime.
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They’re practicing.
Can we just continue fining them a million euros a day?
Getting tired of propping them up financially
Maybe journalists should stop treating Poland as if it were a military dictatorship to begin with?!?
Another daily anti Poland article.
This wouldn’t need to happen if coverage of this crisis was more objective.
Poland and Lithuania are under attack, yet many media are too busy blaming them for their response – from the push back policy to the detention of migrants – to look at the bigger picture. I guess it’s easier to cry over images of people “desperate” to illegally cross into Europe than explaining the consequences of letting them do so or focusing on what Minsk is doing for those wishing to return to their countries. Just pay attention to [the language and tone used by this CNN host in her interview with Lithuania’s interior minister](https://twitter.com/BeckyCNN/status/1460654389736189964).
As much as the Polish government should be criticised for its shift towards authoritarianism, in this specific occasion they probably don’t have much choice.
Which country you can wander off to military base, took photos and ignore orders to leave? Oh, and while doing it refuse to present any form of ID stating you are a press, not even silly hi-vis vests, and in the end refuse to answer who you are and what are you doing there?
I am for letting press into freely watching issues with border crossing, but those guys played fool and probably on purpose, so I do have very little sympathy for consequences their choices. I also wish them they will be able to squash their convictions in appeals, as being reckless shouldn’t be always treated as crime.