Stupidity in the Media and the Poet’s Silence: Tadeusz Różewicz’s Play with Journalism and Journalists

Abstract

Media and communication, journalistic professionalism, the language of the media, the effectiveness of communication and its limitations, the importance of the press for the creative process, attitude towards journalists and journalism (including journalistic professionalism) are among the issues that inform Tadeusz Różewicz’s output as a poet, playwright, prose writer and reporter. The article presents examples of intertextual relations between literature and the formally developed and historically and systemically variable sphere of media, mediatization and the journalistic profession. The problem of the misunderstanding of the professional strategies of journalists and/or of the social crisis in media communication has also been addressed. Różewicz frames the abovementioned issues through references to philosophy and theories of communication.