Polish Parliament 2002 "or magazines" https://pl-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/(%E2%80%A6)_lub_czasopisma?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_

Polish Parliament 2002 "or magazines" https://pl-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/(%E2%80%A6)_lub_czasopisma?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://pl-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/(%E2%80%A6)_l... "or magazines – a fragment of a sentence removed from the governmental draft amendment to the Broadcasting Act adopted in 2002 , changing the sense and scope of some of the key provisions of this act. In the original wording of the bill adopted by the government, Article 36 referred to the prohibition of issuing licenses for nationwide television to "the publisher of a nationwide daily or magazine" . In March 2002, as established by the parliamentary investigative committee on the Rywin scandal , Janina Sokołowska and Iwona Galińska (officials of the National Broadcasting Council ) and Tomasz Łopacki (a lawyer from the Ministry of Culture) deleted two words from the project: or magazines , which prohibited the granting of licenses would still apply to publishers of dailies , but would no longer apply to publishers of weeklies or other periodicalsnot journals. The intention of the authors of this manipulation was to enable Agora 's competitors (the publisher of the Gazeta Wyborcza daily) to apply for a concession . When the words were crossed out, Lew Rywin came to Agora , proposing in exchange for a bribe of 17.5 million dollars , to change the text of the bill so as to allow the company to apply for a television license. This visit marked the beginning of the Rywin affair ; after it was made public, the government reinstated the two words in its own bill, explaining their disappearance by an alleged "technical glitch"."