Obraz ubóstwa w dyskursie prasowym

The article shows discourse about poverty in Gazeta Wyborcza in 2018. The author stresss out two ways of presenting that issue by the symbolic elites in that famous Polish newspaper. First of them involves structural reasons contected with poverty and emphasies solidarity with poor people. Second approach is dominated by argumentation with individual causes of being poor, contains neoliberal ideology and blaiming poor people for their status. The author uses Critical Discourse Analisys to explain that differences. Antother aim of this paper was to show what topics brings poverty issues in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, according to that reasarch writing about poverty in 2018 was contected with global problems such as war (Yemen, Ukraine), imigration crissis (Germany, USA, Mexico, Salvador), global warming and econimic crissis. Articles about poverty in Poland concentrated on social programs (Family 500 plus), homeless people, old age people. Also article shows summary of Polish papers contains discourse analisys about poverty.