No hard feelings please. Yet I think that Americans can't understand what the term “government media” means when it comes to Poland. Poland is uni-ethnic country, to some extent you may say “a tribe” country. So, the government is our “emblem”, our pride, the emanation of the nation chosen in the general election. It's the visual sign of Poland's sovereignty. So, when the Germans say "we attack the Polish govt, not the nation" they only make us infuriated because they attack the Polish nation the most straight way as possible. If media are run by the state, they are run by the nation. The free Polish government = the Polish independence and we don't make any compromises here. (WWII is the best example for that)
This way of thinking doesn't work and actually is completely different in the EU let alone the USA.
PO made the media indifferent to the national affairs. It was a PC pro-EU leftist brainwashing machine. Now all is changed, the EU propaganda vanished like a fog, now we are shown things that were simply forbiden so far. Now I can watch TV with a sigh of relieve...
I hear you. They can’t understand that this was what a plurality of the Polish electorate voted for. But they seem to think that the PiS somehow came to power via a coup d’etat.