Obraz Święta Niepodległości. Analiza dyskursu prasowego „Polityki” i „Przewodnika Katolickiego” w la...

The National Independence Day has been in the process of transformationsince 2011. The nature of the experience accompanying the celebration has beenchanging, as have been the ways in which freedom is manifested by Poles. Themedia have become increasingly focused on the conflicts associated with experiencingthe festivities of 11 November, making the celebration political ratherthan patriotic. The aim of this article is to show the press image of IndependenceDay in weeklies with different viewpoints. The study will be conducted using twoof the most popular periodicals which were among the most popular periodicalsat the end of 2010. The subject of the media analysis will be two weeklies: “Polityka”and “Przewodnik Katolicki” and, specifically, the editions which appearedaround the date of 11 November in 2011 to 2014. These considerations will besupplemented by a discourse analysis of the two media debates in questions conductedin these two periodicals.