AUDIATUR ET ALTERA PARS IN POLISH PRESS LAW. ANALYSIS OF THE SUBJECT MATTER, PROCEDURAL/ORGANISATIONAL AND TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF THE RULE (PART 2)

<ns3:p>A journalist should present reality fairly and impartially, objectively and accurately. The approximation of the journalistic workshop to this model is served by the deontological norms of the profession and the press law, obliging the journalist to act according to the rule of special diligence and reliability. It implies, among other things, the obligation to ‘hear all sides’ ( audiatur et altera parsin Latin), which plays a role in the media system as a guarantee of the completeness and objectivity of the coverage, a kind of ‘fuse’ of fairness and truthfulness of the content (especially when the press makes accusations or formulates criticism of specific subjects), serving both the journalists themselves and the persons described in the media and the public interest sensu largo . This article is a continuation of the considerations on the essence of the rule of audiatur et altera pars, which were taken up in the previous issue of the “Annals of Administration and Law”. At that time, the article discussed its subjective aspect, its axiomatic assumptions and its relation to the meta-principle of the imperative of special care and journalistic integrity set out in Art. 12 sec. 1(1) of the Press Law of 26 January 1984 (Journal of Laws 2018.1914, i.e.). This text shall analyse the successive dimensions of the principle of ‘hearing all parties’, i.e. the substantive, procedural/organisational and temporal dimensions.</ns3:p>