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Nasz Dziennik
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatCompact
PublisherSpes sp. z o.o.
Editor-in-chiefEwa Nowina-Konopka
Founded1998; 26 years ago (1998)
Political alignmentPolitical Catholicism
Traditionalist Catholicism
Polish nationalism
Social conservatism
LanguagePolish
HeadquartersWarsaw
ISSN1429-4834
OCLC number613125892
Websitewww.naszdziennik.pl

Nasz Dziennik ("Our Daily") is a Polish-language Roman Catholic daily newspaper published six times a week in Warsaw, Poland. It is connected to the Lux Veritatis Foundation.[1] Its viewpoint has been described as right-wing[2] to far-right (harking back to the prewar National Democracy political movement),[3] and is supportive of the Traditionalist Catholicism "closed church".[3][4][5]

History and profile

Nasz Dziennik was established in 1998. The paper is published by Spes Ltd.[6]

Nasz Dziennik is a far-right publication whose editorial policies combine radical Catholicism with Polish nationalism.[3] Similarly to the closely linked Radio Maryja, the newspaper adheres to the "Closed Church" movement, which rejects the determinations of the Second Vatican Council. The newspaper was[clarification needed] an influential antisemitic information channel.[5][4]

Articles in Nasz Dziennik have been supportive of conversion therapy (or "reparative therapy", Odwaga) for homosexuality which is viewed by Nasz Dziennik as a form of disease or corruption. Robert Biedroń, president of Campaign Against Homophobia, filed a lawsuit against a Nasz Dziennik columnist over references to homosexuality as a disease.[7] Sociologist Adam Ostolski has compared Nasz Dziennik's homophobic discourse with the antisemitic discourse of the kindred Mały Dziennik of the 1930s.[8] Nasz Dziennik is known for opposing what it calls a "civilisation of death", and opposed the 2004 march against homophobia in Kraków.[9]

The language and ideology of Nasz Dziennik has been compared to the pre-World War II National Democracy (Endecja) movement, which advocated an exclusionary definition of "Polishness" as associated with Catholicism. Nasz Dziennik also frequently refers to the "Poles' Five Truths", a canon of national values first formulated in the late 1930s and cited by present-day Polish nationalists, which include the statement that "Our ancestors' faith is the faith of our children". During the public debate in Poland over the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom, Nasz Dziennik denied Polish involvement and published antisemitic letters as well as "scholarly" articles explaining the pogrom as revenge for treasonous actions by Jewish communists.[3] Nasz Dziennik opposed a Polish national apology for Jedwabne as "unnecessary submission and compliance", which would invite further "demands, libel, accusations, and blackmail from the all-powerful Jewish lobby".[10] During the debate over the Auschwitz cross, Nasz Dziennik defended the cross, publishing articles on the matter that ranged from informative to antisemitic.[3]

Nasz Dziennik has opposed the enlargement of the European Union, in part due to concerns over prospective land sales to foreigners.[11][12] Clergymen writing in Nasz Dziennik have painted a picture of a modern-day Europe in which "dangerous others": liberals, Jews, atheists, masons gather; these opponents are also seen as having an internal "fifth column" inside Poland which is heretical and cosmopolitan.[13]

Nasz Dziennik initially refrained from reporting on the "sex affair" (pl:Seksafera w Samoobronie) involving Andrzej Lepper and Stanisław Łyżwiński; however, after it became an allegedly political matter, Nasz Dziennik articles on the subject referred to "conspiracy-related arguments"[clarification needed] and alleged that Gazeta Wyborcza was involved in a "coup d'état".[14] Following the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, Nasz Dziennik wrote about Soviet-era atrocities such as the murder of priests and the Katyn massacre, using the adjective "Russian" instead of "Soviet" in an attempt to blame the modern Russian regime for past Soviet crimes[citation needed]. Nasz Dziennik further compared the investigation of the crash, which it saw as faulty, with the Soviets' cover-up of the Katyn massacre.[15]

Nasz Dziennik's editor-in-chief is Ewa Nowina Konopka, and one of its main sources of revenue is advertising at both local and national levels.[16] Nasz Dziennik is part of an independent Catholic media conglomerate founded by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk,[17] director of the Lux Veritatis Foundation, which owns the Trwam TV channel and the Radio Maryja radio station.[18]

Nasz Dziennik's circulation was 129,500 in January–February 2001;[6] about 150,000 in 2007.[19] According to the newspaper Rzeczpospolita, alternate sources gave its 1999 circulation as 250,000[20] and its 1998 readership as 600,000.[21]

Bookshops

Nasz Dziennik operates bookshops in Warsaw and Kraków.[22]

TV Trwam presence

Nasz Dziennik journalists present their opinions every Friday night in "Warto zauważyć" ("Worth noting").[23]

References

  1. ^ "O nas". naszdziennik.pl. Retrieved 24 April 2019. Nasz Dziennik is a nationwide newspaper that appears daily. [Nasz Dziennik jest ogólnopolską gazetą, ukazującą się codziennie.]
  2. ^ Waligorska, Magdalena (3 September 2013). Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany. Oxford University Press. p. 194. ISBN 9780199995806.
  3. ^ a b c d e Starnawski, Marcin (2003). "Nationalist discourse and the ultra-conservative press in contemporary Poland: A case study of Nasz Dziennik". Patterns of Prejudice. 37: 65–81. doi:10.1080/0031322022000054349. S2CID 145275972.
  4. ^ a b Robert D. Cherry; Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, eds. (2007). Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 160. ISBN 9780742546660.
  5. ^ a b Michlic, Joanna (2004). "'The Open Church' and 'the Closed Church' and the discourse on Jews in Poland between 1989 and 2000". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 37 (4): 461–479. doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2004.09.006.
  6. ^ a b "Polish national dailies - circulation and sales". OBP. Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  7. ^ Hall, Dorota (2017). "Religion and homosexuality in the public domain: Polish debates about reparative therapy". European Societies. 19 (5): 600–622. doi:10.1080/14616696.2017.1334947. S2CID 149408520.
  8. ^ Graff, A. (2010). "Looking at Pictures of Gay Men: Political Uses of Homophobia in Contemporary Poland" (PDF). Public Culture. 22 (3): 583–603. doi:10.1215/08992363-2010-010.
  9. ^ Tornquist-Plewa, B.; Malmgren, Agnes (2007). Homophobia and nationalism in Poland: The reactions to the March Against Homophobia in Cracow 2004. Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and Societies. Vol. 23. Trondheim: Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
  10. ^ Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse, chapter by Zygmunt Mazur, University of Delaware Press, page 195
  11. ^ The Post-Communist Condition: Public and private discourses of transformation, chapter by Michal Buchowski, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 33
  12. ^ Beyond the Borders of Baptism: Catholicity, Allegiances, and Lived Identities, edited by Michael L. Budde, chapter by Slavica Jakelic, Cascade Books, page 107
  13. ^ Leszczyńska, Katarzyna (2017). "The Roman Catholic Church in Poland vis-à-vis Europe and the Processes of European Integration. Three Pictures of Europe". Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland. pp. 61–84. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-43751-8_4. ISBN 978-1-137-44833-0.
  14. ^ The Post-Communist Condition: Public and private discourses of transformation, chapter by Natalia Krzyzanowska, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 120
  15. ^ Lupion, Miranda (2017). "National Memory and Divisive Narrative Building in Poland's 2010 Presidential Election". Polish Political Science Review. 5 (1): 5–21. doi:10.1515/ppsr-2015-0039. S2CID 62831663.
  16. ^ Biura Ogłoszeń; Archived 6 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Ogłoszenia wymiarowe i reklamy. Nasz Dziennik, 2011. Warsaw.
  17. ^ Ryszard Filas; Pawe Paneta (2009). "Media in Poland and Public Discourse". In Andrea Czepek; et al. (eds.). Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe. Bristol: Intellect. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  18. ^ "Rydzyk to build leisure complex." Polskie Radio, Warsaw, 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  19. ^ Nakłady wszystkich tytułów prasowych (PDF 133.6 KB) Archived 30 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine University of Zielona Góra, 2007. (in Polish) Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  20. ^ Stefan Auer (2004). Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-31479-4.
  21. ^ Ulric R. Nichol (2007). Focus on Politics and Economics of Russia and Eastern Europe. Nova Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60021-317-5.
  22. ^ "Nasz Dziennik - Księgarnia".
  23. ^ "Warto zauważyć".

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