The National Broadcasting Council has already announced in connection with the famous interview that Monika Olejnik gave in “Kropka nad i” to the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and candidate for the KO primary election in an interview with Virtualna Polska. It confirmed that it had received two separate complaints. , Radosław Sikorski.
“The allegations concern the use of anti-Semitic stereotypes in conversations about presidential candidates,” Teresa Bryczynska, a spokesperson for the National Broadcasting Council, told the portal.
Bryczynska confirmed that “clarification procedures have already begun” in the case.
Radosław Sikorski as Monika Olejnik. “We demand a restoration of standards.”
On Tuesday night, Radosław Sikorski was a guest on Monika Olejnik's show “Kropka nad i”.
During the interview, the host quoted fragments of statements by anonymous KO politicians that were allegedly published in Chigodnik Pousechny. In the end, it turned out that Mr. Olejnik was referring to a report by Piotr Simiłowicz whose text was published in Gazeta.pl.
Party representatives quoted by the author are said to have suggested that “the problem lies in the origins of his wife” of Polish foreign affairs chief Anne Applebaum, an award-winning journalist of Jewish descent.
“There is already a secular tradition that first ladies should be of Jewish descent,” Radosław Sikorski said, referring to the fact that Agata Kornhäuser-Duda is also of Jewish descent.
Interview with Radosław Sikorski and Monika Oleinik. presenter reacts
After the episode aired, the foreign ministry secretary added a post on social media calling on the TVN station to “restore journalistic standards.”
Poland's top diplomat had the support of several politicians on social media, including his opponent in the KO primary election, Rafał Trzaskowski. Monika Oleinik herself also published an entry in which she apologized to viewers, saying, “If I wasn't accurate enough and emphasized enough.”
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