No, that is not what this Oxford study said. It said it's not publishing much disinformation.
Yeah, Wyborcza and TVN, supposedly some of the other super unbiased media outlets, according to that study.
Close enough.
Which is a very curious set of interests to take...
It's perfectly possible to have an editorial policy with a very clear political line yet without publishing outright disinformation, through the magic of skillful selection of what to talk about and what to shut up about.
In their case, some people have noticed that they seem oddly precise in throwing spanners wherever Polish diplomacy is trying to make some major play to the south or east, with the usual scheme of reminding everyone about grievances old and new, big or small, whatever is available, with the implied conclusion that we should be permanently frowning at them and do nothing beyond that.
Naturally such things are inconvenient to our politicians, at least those trying such diplomatic moves, but on the other hand, lemme ask another question - is that beneficial for Polish national interest?
LOL, nope.
First, Kresy is by no means influential enough to have any degree of actual impact, foreign or domestic, that would be needed to "spoil" any diplomatic initiative in a notable way. "
Oh noes, this here minor news portal spoke badly of this, we have to retract and drop the issue. If only they gave us good publicity... But they did not, so we must quit. So sad..."
Diplomatic initiatives don't work like that, and Kresy are too miniscule. Michnik and Wyborcza had that kind of pull at the peak of their power in 1990's, where all our politicians quaked in their boots out of fear of bad editorial. But not Kresy.
What they do have is a voice going against the echo chamber that our political "class" prefers a lot. But our politicians do not care about social opinion outside of elections anyway.
Second, Polish "diplomacy" doesn't make "plays". Polish "diplomacy" is disgustingly servile, consistenly fails to stand up to protect vital interests of our minorities in "former" (Pol-Lit Commonwealth) areas, gladly sacrificing them on the mass delusion altar of "Saint Giedroyć". Our eastern policy is an unholy mess of messianism, prometeism and naivity that "it's never the correcttime" to stand up for, and make demands to protect Poles living there because "current reasons". And there's
always an excuse, usually a six letter one that starts with an "R" and ends with an "a". Ukrainians spit in our diplomat's faces and our (?) guys cheer at how nicely it's raining.
Third, a lot of our political "class"
genuinely does seem to believe that diplomacy is not about actual interests but about being
liked. That diplomacy is actually a form of social life so that the key objective of it is to
be liked and patted on the back and never raise any issues that might result in
discomfort. And God forbid to actually stand up for our national interests abroad where others would need to accomodate us. It's always us bending over for others, never in return.
Of course, this is a consequence of how political careers are made here, by political clientelism and being good little yes-men of those higher up, so that servile attitude is "carried over" from national politics into international ones.
We hepled Ukraine so much, and we still can't get them to agree to exhumations of victims of Wołyń genocide, while Germans had no problems excavating corpses of their troops from WW2 for example at the same time. Ukraine just recently blocked humanitarian aid for Poles living in Ukraine to help them pass the winter. Just some examples. And the only consistent reaction "our diplomacy" does is to decry anyone who dares mention it as "Russian puppet".
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