"I do not want to call it "moral censorship," but it is true that certain things ought to be discussed on this subject. I was very much in favor of the grass-roots initiatives aiming at limiting violence, brutality, pornography and other unacceptable things in the media."

"I tried- on the basis of how this matter is treated in the West - for instance in Holland it is very well organized - to introduce a type of self-government, something that is not so much a government censor as self-censorship; self-government on the part of the media," says Dr. Andrzej Zoll in this interview. Dr. Zoll is the Public Gaurdian of Civil Rights, who has recently asked the Constitutional Tribunal to decree whether the new Media Law is in accordance with Poland's Constitution. Q: Sir, in your capacity as Public Gaurdian of Civil Rights, you've recently asked the Constitutional Tribunal to take up the matter of the new Media Law that the parlaiment has approved. What do you expect of our MPs, that they not elect new comissioners to the National Radio and Television Commission? Andrzej Zoll: No, of course not. Our legal system presumes that laws are constitutional until such time as the Tribunal decides otherwise. Therefore, the Media Law is in effect and only if and wh