In Britain we call it the ‘silly season’ – in Poland it’s called the ‘cucumber season’, when the media starts to fill up with nonsense.
Letter from Poland
by Peter Gentle
29.08.06
Polish politicians came back from their holidays last wee k and immediately started knocking lumps out of each other.
Polish journalists breathed a sigh of relief. Without politicians journalists have no stories about politicians to write about. And when journalists have no political stories they go into a kind of delirium tremor – they get the shakes. ‘What to write about’ they fret as they toss and turn themselves to sleep at night, story-less for the next day.