ABSTRACT
The daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita had its origins in communist Poland in 1980 as a party organ existing alongside and supposedly more liberal than the main party organ Trybuna Ludu . It has been independent since 1991 and today, next to Gazeta Wyborcza , it is a widely respected newspaper. Slightly more conservative and nationalistic than its rival, it makes a speciality of reporting on business, government and legal issues. It can roughly be compared to The Times of London or America’s Wall Street Journal . The present article, whose title makes a clever pun out of the idiom nabić w butelkę (‘make a fool of’), is characteristic of the paper’s business and trade concerns.
