# Claim 288

A former colleague said news and current-affairs staff were the first dismissed in the reorganization.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

- Statement: A former colleague said news and current-affairs staff were the first dismissed in the reorganization.
- Field: action
- Value: News staff targeted first
- About: [incident 2015-poland-public-media-law-firings](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2015-poland-public-media-law-firings)
- Source: Poland's political cleansing of journalists. https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2016/05/polands-political-cleansing-of-journalists/
- Publisher: Index on Censorship
- Method: outlet report
- Checked: 2026-09-22
- Confidence: medium
- Status: current
- Source date: 2016-05-01

## Quotation from the source

> The ones to bite the bullet first were journalists and editors of news and current affairs programmes

Source page: https://thewaronnews.com/claims/288. The War On News, CC BY 4.0.