Zasada domniemania niewinności i jej realizacja w polskiej prasie

The article entitled “The Principle of Presumption of Innocence and Its Realization in the Polish Daily Newspapers” concerns one of the vital matters of today’s market of information media. The article concerns the most important points of my master’s thesis, entitled in a similar manner. The article consists of four distinctive parts. The first one defines the idea of presumption of innocence, one of the principles of the Polish legal system. The second part concentrates on the relationship between information media and the presumption of innocence. This part not only comprises a description of processes that can infl uence the realization of the aforementioned principle but it also presents the results of the scientific research of the problem that has been undertaken until the present day. The third part concerns a similar research that I undertook during the writing of my graduation thesis – the article gives only a summary of this process. The research concentrates on four daily newspapers, two of which are viewed as tabloids, in the timespan of four constructed weeks. The image of negative phenomena occurring on the pages of today’s newspapers, which results from the research, is far from ideal and can even induce a feeling of discomfort. The fourth and final part of the article is a form of analysis of the specific language used by the Polish tabloids. The citations from the selected issues of the newspapers are, in my opinion, the best examples of this characteristic language, which can even be described as a specific dialect.