A significant element of Central and Eastern Europe’s democracies backsliding process turns out to be changes in the media law. These changes are now leading to a decline in media freedom. The article attempts to understand this phenomenon by analyzing the process of legal and policy changes in Poland. In the course of the analysis, the reader’s attention is drawn to three elements that form the mainline of events related to the weakening of media freedom. These are, in turn, (a) the takeover of public media by influencing the staffing of media companies, (b) introducing a new, completely politicized body into the legal order, which duplicates the already existing and partially politicized media authority, and (c) exerting economic and legal pressure on the media independent of the authorities, so that they can be taken over by state-owned companies or businessmen favoring the authorities. As a whole, this decline in media freedom can be viewed as a strategy that antagonizes society.

中欧和东欧民主倒退过程的一个重要因素是媒体法的变化。这些变化现在导致媒体自由度下降。本文试图通过分析波兰法律和政策变化的过程来理解这一现象。在分析过程中，将读者的注意力吸引到构成与媒体自由减弱相关的事件主线的三个要素上。反过来，这些是 (a) 通过影响媒体公司的人员配置来接管公共媒体，(b) 在法律秩序中引入一个新的、完全政治化的机构，复制现有的和部分政治化的媒体权威，以及 ( c) 独立于当局对媒体施加经济和法律压力，以便它们可以被国有公司或偏向当局的商人接管。总的来说，这种媒体自由的下降可以被视为一种对抗社会的策略。