HANNA KARP: Journalists in the totalitarian mass media system of the Polish People's Republic

The article describes journalism within a totalitarian system. The journalist and editor became representatives of the regime. The regime controlled not only the material side of life, but also its spiritual and mental aspects. Willing journalists, by creating a format for socialist journalism, developed the ideological framework for the new political and social system while also projecting a vision of the society of the future, which was to be completely subjugated to the State. An extensive network of totalitarian security services upheld the uncompromising loyalty of journalists towards the system.

Keywords: totalitarian media, journalism, the Polish People's Republic