Rola i znaczenie mediów w kształtowaniu obrazupolsko-niemieckiego pogranicza w latach 90. XX wieku(na przykładzie „Gazety Pogranicza”– dodatku do „Gazety Wyborczej”)

International audienceThe article is an attempt to determine the role of the media in shaping the image of the Polish-German borderlands. As examples, press releases published (from August 1994 to November1996) in Gazeta Pogranicza [Borderland Gazette] were used. The newspaper is the result of cooperationbetween local editorial supplements to Gazeta Wyborcza and the Brandenburg regional dailynewspaper Märkische Oderzeitung. An important element of this research is the assumption thatthe foundation of any international communication is the need to know and understand