Editor in-Chief of “Dziennik” newspaper replies to the Internet readers: Kiss my ass!

Robert Krasowski, Editor In-Chief of “Dziennik” answering criticism after his newspaper has revealed identity of the political blogger says: “kiss my ass” to the public.

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In his editorial titled “Open letter to the Kataryna defenders” Krasowski declares, that reading all the comments, he could not find any arguments but invectives. He describes his newspaper online readers as: “small people from Gogol or Dostoyevsky, that are putting bile of envy on the whole world”.

“You are entering web forums not to discuss, but to smash everybody on your way” – Krasowki says.

Mr. Krasowski cites in his article many epithets commonly used in emotional discussions on political websites. He also says to the Internet users:

“You have never accomplished anything, you never revealed anyting important, you have never found any scandal”

Krasowski states, that they did not explicitly reveal Kataryna’s identity, and even so, that it was just what journalists have to do. He also states, that the blackmailing her was an example of “true journalism” and “normal way of convincing somebody to share information”.

Mr. Krasowski is not mentioning false allegations that his journalists wrote about Kataryna, and he tries to divide readers. As he writes most of them are “good”, but he wants to fight with “this small but noisy group that makes a tone of the Polish Web”.

As a margin note we may add, that Krasowski’s Dziennik is dramatically loosing readers (40 % year-to year as for March 2009). Should we consider this as a fight for life with growing online media industry? Alternatively, maybe “Dziennik” tries to shut down independent commentators empowered by Web?