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| '''Radio Maryja''' is a |
'''Radio Maryja''' is a conservative ] radio station in ] founded ], ]. Its director is Father Tadeusz Rydzyk. Radio Maryja supported the victorious ] and ] during the parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland (Sep/Oct ]). | ||
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| ==Audience== | ==Audience== | ||
| The radio is listened by approx. 1,2 million people daily |
The radio is listened by approx. 1,2 million people daily. Its audience peaked in 1998, when the radio had 2 million listeners. | ||
| ==Hate Radio== | |||
| As the recent survey on European "hate radios" perpared by Radio Netherlands showed, the message transmitted by the Radio Maryja is by no doubt controversial. According to this survey, one of Radio Maryja programmes is "Unfinished Conversations", which is, according to magazine 'Polityka', "dominated by intolerance and authoritarianism. It puts absolute blame on privatisation, all reforms, the market economy, the Jews and liberals." | |||
| *'''Antisemitism'''. Critics say that the radio station cross the line into ] and ]. Many fragments of such radio broadcasts are presented in comic websites, that heve recenty emerged, such as the website . The examples stored there show that Radio Maryja listeners were for example informed that the Jewish people fled from Poland with Jewish Gold , that Jewish People cause that the quantity of Polish children to diminish . | |||
| *'''Conspiracy theories'''. It is often repeated that the masonry rules the world and that the ]s will conquer the world . It was once said that the Jews rule the country and their government should be removed with violence and Radio Maryja should take the power . Jewish People working in ] were accused of betrayal and conspiracy (that they knew everything before). Even the words of German chancellor G. Schroeder about Poland were falsified. | |||
| *'''Rejection of Holocaust'''. In January 2000 Ryszard Bender, a historician from Lublin Catholic University announced on the waves of Radio Maryja, that Auschwitz was not a place of mass extermination, but a place of hard work. Bender openly rejected the Holocaust, by saying that Jews have only worked in Auschwitz. This statement renewed a long-lasting debatte about Radio Maryja in Polish media | |||
| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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Radio Maryja is a conservative Catholic radio station in Poland founded December 8, 1991. Its director is Father Tadeusz Rydzyk. Radio Maryja supported the victorious Law and Justice party and Lech Kaczynski during the parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland (Sep/Oct 2005).
Finances and ownership
The radio station is owned by the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Warsaw Province), and is financed through donations from its audience. Radio Maryja is, according to Polish law giving special rights to the Catholic Church, not bounded by any accountancy rules, so Radio Maryja does not have to prove the sources of finincing for the radio (and the whole media complex of TV and daily newspaper).
Audience
The radio is listened by approx. 1,2 million people daily. Its audience peaked in 1998, when the radio had 2 million listeners.
External links
- Official website
- Radio Netherlands feature on controversial European radio stations including Radio Maryja
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