For the sake of readers trying to grasp this Polish-German rift....the Polish authorities after the recent election decided that the national state-run TV empire would be run by the Treasury Department instead of a independent commission. They ran through the draft quickly, voted, and in a matter of just a month....it was done.
The German state-run news media has come out blazing and it’s a nightly thing where they try to hype the anti-democracy theme of this change.
Some Germans (probably near half the adult population) will admit (1) they don’t watch much of the German state-run TV, (2) they dislike the monthly TV tax, and (3) they’d like to fire the German independent commission that monitors German state-run TV.
Thanks for that background.