ABSTRACT
The collapse of communism in 1989 in Poland and other Central European countries resulted in changes in many areas of social, political, and economic life. One important area of change was the mass media in general and political communication in particular (Dobek-Ostrowska, 2001). Curry (2006) rightly observes that the transformation of the mass media in this region of Europe was part and parcel of these societies’ transitions out of communism and toward democracy, and notes that one could not have happened without the other.
