Public broadcaster TVP has suspended editor Alicja Resich-Modlinska or hosting a chat about porn films on morning TV.
The hosts of the popular morning show Pytanie na sniadanie (A question for breakfast) were also punished by having their salaries cut and the head of the department got reprimanded after Krzysztof Garwatowski, spokesman for porn publishers Pink Press appeared on the show on 18 May.
The hosts asked Garwatowski, for example, what is fashionable in amateur porn films?
After the show Piotr Strzembosz from the rightwing Polish Right political party raised the alarm.
“I almost choked on my breakfast when I heard what the conversation was about,” Strzembosz told the Rzeczpospolita daily. He then asked the president of TVP for an explanation and informed the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) about the incident.
The then president of TVP Romuald Orzel sent a letter to the council saying: “I regret to admit that such conversation was broadcast at TVP Channel 2 (…) The editor of the show intended to show a social problem but, unfortunately, even these intentions do not justify unnecessary and banal talk which was broadcast on TVP Channel 2.” (mg)