List do Lady Aldony

Aldona Wejchert, wdowa po śp. wizjonerze Janie Wejchercie, jest nominalnie największym udziałowcem w panamskiej ITI. Wdowa mało interesuje się biznesem ITI, za to dobrze bawi się na salonach. Ale niektórzy przypominają wdowie o jej udziałach w ITI.

My oczywiscie nie chcemy psuc Lady Aldonie dobrej zabawy, ale skoro otrzymalismy niadawno kopie listu otwartego, zaadresowanego do niej przez pana Adama Fularza, zamieszczamy ponizej caly list w wersji orginalnej. Bez komentarzy:

OPEN LETTER TO LADY ALDONA WEJCHERT



An: Sehr geehrte Frau 

Aldona Wejchert

care of: Hotel Kulm, 

Via Veglia 18, 7500 Saint-Moritz





Attached: scenes from Polish show inciting to violence against children- "Surowi rodzice", on the TVN network in Poland, owned by Luxemburg- based ITI Group. Please, stop it!



Lady Wejchert, 

I am deeply shocked, what kind of businesses you allow to be run in Your name. The Polish ITI Group- once it was a bizzare company collaborating with- then – communist authorities of then- People’s Republic of Poland. The company offers its obligation on the stock exchange in Luxembourg, as the "Polish Television Holding B.V." And- You ask what it does? Well, it runs nation’s foremost opinion-making TV-channel that runs a clearly most- progovernmental programming of all the TV stations on the market. You might be sure to meet members of the government on air. And the owner’s friends. A very closed TV station.



But that is not the point. What bothers me most, is the educational programming they run (like the "shocking "Surowi Rodzice") show. Children, when shown, clearly from some minorities, wold-view and spiritual minorities, some popular "subcultures", you would call it, are being treated badly: beaten, thrown, victimesd, shouted at, discouraged and foremost and, unexceptionally, thought to obey. Do we want the young Polish people to be obiedient to their "Polish" masters: mostly the elder ones? Do we want them to work as children? This is what this station wants parents to do: to make children in their 14-teens or 15-teens work, even in some commmercial businesses (children Dawid, aged 15, and Oliwka aged 14, featured in this controversial programme). Such practices are, according to Polish law, illegal. We receive workoholics unable to have basic pleasures of life. Children unable to play most of sports.



I happen to run a social tv network in Poland. I got lots of input from children from such minorities as the ones that the station is bashing at. Some of them vere living completely on their own, struggling to make their living and survive (imagine You would have to survive on Your own when being 16 or 17 years old. They manage it). Some of these children somehow connected their business side, selling drugs and even pimping- with some religious values, making them even quite devout in their beliefs and morals (in a quite modern fashion). I got also interesting input from a boy who was too poor to dream of any form of independence from his parents. Polish schools and Polish education collapsed, making youth unprepared for business life. Many decide to quit from schooling system to be more self-sufficient and free from the cauldron of prejudices towards minorities and even subcultures, that some companies- foremostly the ITI Group, are injecting into Polish households. 



Young Poles deserve freedom, and deserve good education. This is what I got thanks to living close to the German border, enough to study on the other side of the Polish border. Polish young people often cannot afford to live apart from their parents. It it sad that someone is so cruel to inject even more hatred, scream, violence, in the already heated Polish inter-generational problem, as the younger generations clearly suffer due to the bad quality of education. And they cannot succed in businesses, due to the high transaction costs of running a business in Poland, and the low productivity resulting. The TVN network (owned by ITI) does not respoond to the whole plethora of such and many other problems at all. To me, they seem to be dealing with current political propaganda, not- any long-term problems, real problems of the country. There is something strange in it, what makes the ITI group so – dependent. The very opposite of independent. 



We should be obedient to the prime minister and to our elders- this is the message that flows to Poland via ITI. If the children aren’t listening, the TV , financed by the ITI – Group, allows TV-watching parents to use physical force to their children, to even move them as they want (see attached screenshots). 



Another case is the station’s political programming. Anyone is allowed to broadcast, what one’s want, provided he is not doing harm to other people. The ITI group broadcasts some exotic mixture of religion and politics, and was offering a religious miracle in Sokółka as a form of pre-election warm-up for their viewers. The station is politically biased toward the ruling party, exactly in a way you would find in various African or Asian regimes throughout the world. Poland could have different political class, You can find smarter people really in many places, often with some academic background, but people controlling main media would not give them any airtime, claiming that they are insignificant, exactly like they did before the recent elections with a political party that ranked third in the official election results. During the last elections, the ITI-operated Polish TVN network, somehow "forgot" to include in its pre-electoral shows the representatives of many of non-parliamentary parties, even the political party that ranked 3. in the parliamentary elections. They claimed these new contestants insignificant- and they did it for the last 2 decades, making Polish politics a very closed system, that opened up rahter with the rise of Internet than changes in the media.



Refering to the case of violence done to the children on the TV programming- I fell that the religious and worldview minorities are being abused. I do not wish to see the violence done to children, and the misrespect done to all the minorities in Poland, to increase. I do not know if You approve this kind of operations to be performed on Your behalf. Totalitarism is not only about politics, it is also about the education. 



Thank You, Lady Aldona, if You cleared this sad situation with other shareholders of Your company.



Yours faithfully,



Adam Fularz

Telewizja Opera,

Poland





Sources: [1] 

http://www.alert24.pl/alert24/1,84880,11429079,_Surowi_rodzice__w_TVN__Czy_telewizja_przekroczyla.html