POLISH PRESS ATTACKED
“Unfair” Reports Of Poznan Trials
POZNAN. October 20. A defence lawyer has attacked the Polish newspapers for unfair and onesided reporting of the Poznan not trials. The lawyer, Mr Leon Kaczynski, told a Court trying eight alleged rioters: “The task of the newspapers of giving the truth to the public is, to put it mildly, not properly done.” He said that defence lawyers believed the newspapers had the intention of giving the public a certain thesis against the truth. He accused the newspapers of publishing only fragments of the defence lawyers’ speeches and some witnesses’ evidence. He complained that during the trial they described accused as “hooligans and bandits” before judgment was passed. “The defence counsel say that this type of pressure by the newspapers should not be allowed,” he said. The crowd m the public benches laughted when Mr Kaczynski looked straight across at the packed press benches and said: “The press has been a hunchback til] now, and cannot straighten itself up.”
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28105, 22 October 1956, Page 11
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