%0 Journal Article %T Mediatyzacja polityki w tygodnikach opinii w Polsce – między polityzacją a komercjalizacją %A Dobek-Ostrowska, Bogusława %J Zeszyty Prasoznawcze %V 2018 %R 10.4467/22996362PZ.18.016.9111 %N Tom 61, Numer 2 (234) %P 224-246 %K mediatization of politics, politicization of media, commercialization, weekly magazine, media coverage, entrenched coverage, journalistic visibility %@ 0555-0025 %D 2018 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/zeszyty-prasoznawcze/artykul/mediatyzacja-polityki-w-tygodnikach-opinii-w-polsce-miedzy-polityzacja-a-komercjalizacja %X Mediatization of politics in opinion weekly magazines – between politicization and commercialization Media participation in a political process is analyzed thanks to mediatization of politics and media coverage. Quantitative and qualitative content analysis let verify whether they exist in Polish weekly magazine and how strong is this phenomenon. Three concepts: mediatization of politics, media coverage of politics, and entrenched journalism (or it  lacks) act together. Weekly opinion magazine market in Poland is a good example of external media pluralism. In a comparison with other media markets, de-professionalization of journalism is going slowly. However, the weekly magazines differ among them signifi cantly in a case of a level of professionalism and journalistic culture, they represent a vast scale of political preferences, ideologies, norms and values from the left to the right.