Nie (magazine)

This article is about a Polish magazine. For other uses, see NIE (disambiguation).
Nie
EditorJerzy Urban (deceased)
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherURMA Sp.z o.o.
Founded1990; 34 years ago (1990)
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish
Websitetygodniknie.pl
ISSN0867-2237

Nie (stylised as NIE; Polish for "No"; pronounced /ɲɛ/) is a Polish weekly magazine published in Warsaw.

History and profile

The magazine was first published in October 1990.[1][2] It was founded by Jerzy Urban who was the first and only editor-in-chief of the magazine until his death in 2022.[1][3][4]

Its political line is left. The magazine is very critical of right wing political views and religion, especially Catholicism.[5] In the 1990s it supported the leader of the Democratic Left Alliance, Aleksander Kwaśniewski.[2] It publishes lot of satirical texts with cartoons and pictures.[2]

Nie had a circulation of 600,000 copies in 1991.[6] In 1995 its circulation was over 700,000 copies.[2]

In 1990 when Solidarity and the church were planning to push a strict new anti-abortion law through parliament, the magazine published a quarter-page, full-color photograph of a nude couple about to make love to warn its readers that "they risked going to jail or being forced into unwanted marriages if they did what the couple in the picture was about to do."[6] The church leaders and President Lech Wałęsa harshly criticized it and in March 1991 the prosecutor's office charged Urban with "publishing an image of pornographic character."[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Lawrence Weschler (11 December 1995). "Urban Blight". The New Yorker. p. 54. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d Adrian Bridge (9 October 1995). "Missing Persons No:36 Jerzy Urban". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-20. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  3. ^ Katarzyna Pokorna-Ignatowicz (2012). The Polish Media System 1989 - 2011. Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM Krakowskie Towarzystwo Edukacyjna. p. 73. ISBN 978-83-7571-217-9. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Jerzy Urban, spokesman for Polish communist govt, dies at 89". ABC News. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  5. ^ "Poles and the Catholic Church Preaching for the European Union". The Economist. Warsaw. 14 March 2002. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  6. ^ a b c Joseph A. Reaves (8 August 1991). "Ex-polish Spokesman Turns 'Rebel'". Chicago Tribune. Warsaw. Retrieved 28 October 2014.

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