The day after thousands of faithful Catholics gathered around Poland to defend the good name of Saint John Paul II, Polish journalist Tomasz Rowiński explains how those intent on discrediting the former pope manipulate the facts to suit their purposes
The attack on John Paul II carried out in Poland in recent weeks by two liberal media outlets - TVN television and Agora, the publisher of left-leaning national newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza" - is based primarily on a broad presentation of manipulatively selected historical material, details of which have previously already been honestly reported by journalists researching the history of the Catholic Church during the communist dictatorship.
