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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Compact |
| Publisher | Spes sp. z o.o. |
| Editor-in-chief | Ewa Nowina-Konopka |
| Founded | 1998; 27 years ago (1998) |
| Political alignment | Political Catholicism Traditionalist Catholicism Polish nationalism Social conservatism |
| Language | Polish |
| Headquarters | Warsaw |
| ISSN | 1429-4834 |
| OCLC number | 613125892 |
| Website | www |
Nasz Dziennik (Polish pronunciation:[ˈnaʂˈd͡ʑɛn.ɲik], "Our Daily") is aPolish-language Roman Catholic dailynewspaper published six times a week inWarsaw, Poland. It is connected to theLux Veritatis Foundation.[1] Its viewpoint has been described as right-wing[2] to far-right (harking back to the prewarNational Democracy political movement),[3] and is supportive of theTraditionalist Catholicism "closed church".[3][4][5]
Nasz Dziennik was established in 1998. The paper is published by Spes Ltd.[6]
Nasz Dziennik is afar-right publication whose editorial policies combineradical Catholicism with Polishnationalism.[3] Similarly to the closely linkedRadio Maryja, the newspaper adheres to the "Closed Church" movement, which rejects the determinations of theSecond Vatican Council. The newspaper was[clarification needed] an influentialantisemitic information channel.[5][4]
Articles inNasz Dziennik have been supportive ofconversion therapy (or "reparative therapy",Odwaga) for homosexuality which is viewed byNasz Dziennik as a form of disease or corruption.Robert Biedroń, president ofCampaign Against Homophobia, filed a lawsuit against aNasz Dziennik columnist over references to homosexuality as a disease.[7] SociologistAdam Ostolski has comparedNasz Dziennik'shomophobic discourse with the antisemitic discourse of the kindredMały 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 inKraków.[9]
The language and ideology ofNasz Dziennik has been compared to the pre-World War IINational 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 1941Jedwabne 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 theAuschwitz 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 theEuropean Union, in part due to concerns over prospective land sales to foreigners.[11][12] Clergymen writing inNasz 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) involvingAndrzej Lepper andStanisław Łyżwiński; however, after it became an allegedly political matter,Nasz Dziennik articles on the subject referred to "conspiracy-related arguments"[clarification needed] and alleged thatGazeta Wyborcza was involved in a "coup d'état".[14] Following the2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash,Nasz Dziennik wrote about Soviet-era atrocities such as the murder of priests and theKatyn 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'seditor-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 byFatherTadeusz Rydzyk,[17] director of theLux Veritatis Foundation, which owns theTrwam TV channel and theRadio 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 newspaperRzeczpospolita, alternate sources gave its 1999 circulation as 250,000[20] and its 1998 readership as 600,000.[21]
Nasz Dziennik operates bookshops in Warsaw and Kraków.[22]
Nasz Dziennik journalists present their opinions every Friday night in"Warto zauważyć" ("Worth noting").[23]
Nasz Dziennik is a nationwide newspaper that appears daily. [Nasz Dziennik jest ogólnopolską gazetą, ukazującą się codziennie.]
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