💰 Boy’s Suicide in Poland Spurs Backlash Against State Media Tactics

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Send any friend a storyAs the host of a jaunty morning radio show, Grzegorz Piepke saw it as his job to “make listeners smile” as they prepared for work and avoided talking about Poland’s often venomous political struggles on air. The radio station, part of a public broadcasting system controlled by Poland’s right-wing governing Law and Justice party, had become the target of public fury over what many see as its role in a political hit job that helped identify a 15-year-old sex abuse victim, the son of a local opposition politician. Liberal-minded friends, he said, had long questioned his decision to take a job at Radio Szczecin but “my aim was to show that you can be apolitical and work for Polish radio

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