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Wojciech Daniel Cejrowski (born 27 June 1964 in
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) is a Polish radio journalist, satirist, photographer,
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, artistic director of the Discover World library, and a member of
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.


Education

Cejrowski graduated from the XVII High School by the name of
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in Warsaw. In 2010 he received a BA in sociology from the
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. Cejrowski also studied without graduating at Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy;
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,
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.


Career


Radio

Cejrowski started his radio career in 1991 – along with Korneliusz Pacuda he conducted the program (Is There a Place for
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in Poland?). One of its results was a contract with American ABC Network – since 1992 all Polish local broadcasting stations had started to broadcast Polish versions of
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. Wojciech Cejrowski (initially alongside Pacuda) hosted this broadcast for eleven years. The very last one (№ 519) was broadcast in January 2003. In 1993 Cejrowski was offered a job by Wojciech Mann and Krzysztof Materna, owners of the private radio station Radio Kolor (Radio Color). First he hosted his own music programme then also famous (Airplane) together with Beata Pawlikowska and then his leading morning programme (every Saturday from 6 to 10 am – which later gave the beginning to ). His cooperation with Radio Kolor ended in 1997 (soon after Mann and Materna left the radio station and some changes for the worse were made). He worked for Radio WAW-a for next 3 years (1997–1999). These days Cejrowski's radio broadcasts can be found in various public and private broadcasting stations in Poland. The best known is his traveler cycle (On the Other Side of the Globe) – more than 300 episodes that were broadcast by Radio Station 1, Radio dla Ciebie, Radio Koszalin, Radio Merkury, Radio PiK and Radio Network PLUS. He also works for Polish Radio Station 1. He sends his correspondences from foreign countries for (First Hand) and (The Driver's Radio) and his traveler's stories for (Summer with Radio). During the 2005 winter season Cejrowski hosted the (Winter with Radio Station One). In the meantime since 2003 he has been creating music broadcasts on the demand of Music Editorial Office – (Music on the Pier) and (Subtropical Broadcast).


Television

(WC Fifteen Minutes) broadcast by the public
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(TVP) (1994–1996) is his most widely known TV programme. The show was watched by three million viewers. Cejrowski started his TV career by cooperating with Wojciech Mann in his show (Non-stop Color) broadcast on
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(1992–1994). He also was the host of the show (The Stable) broadcast by the Polish TV and some local TV stations. Between 1996 and 1997 Cejrowski recorded a series of 30 episodes reporting on his journey to South America for TV Niepokalanów (now called TV Puls). While at RTL 7 since 1997, Cejrowski, along with Jan Pietrzak, Jan Tadeusz Stanisławski, Krzysztof Daukszewicz and others, participated in a satirist talk show focused on various aspects of daily life in Poland. Between 1999 and 2000 Cejrowski co-hosted with Alicja Resich-Modlińska the talk show (Beauty and the Beast). While at Polsat (2003-4) Cejrowski hosted his own show (With Camera Amongst the People also broadcast by TV 4 and Polsat 2). His highest level of publicity reached 2.5 million people – a № 4 record in Poland. In 2007 Cejrowski started his popular Barefoot Around the World travel show (), awarded the 2008 Travel & Tourism
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Gold World Medal.


Writing

Cejrowski writes and publishes quite a lot on social and political situations, including columns in ''
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'', '' Tygodnik AWS'', and '' Ilustrowany Kurier Polski'', and on travel, including humorous reports in ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Poznaj Świat'' and others.


Political humor

* (''Mophead Stands on End'') * (''The Hammer for the Left'') * (''Salt into an Eye'')


Travel writing

* (''Traveler WC'') * (''At the Orinoco's End'') * (''Gringo Among the Wild Tribes'') * * (''Island in the Prairie'')


Controversy

Cejrowski is Poland's most prominent journalist to openly advocate against the
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rights movement. In his rhetoric, Cejrowski refers to LGBTQ people as "sodomites", "buggers", and "paederasts". In his article for ''Dziennik'', he has written that he "prefers savages over gay parades". Cejrowski states that European society is overwhelmingly against homosexuality, and advocates for the creation of a nationwide network of homosexuality clinics aiming to ' alter this disgusting behavior'. He says that "
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should be pointed at, as the sin of sodomy evokes disgust". In April 2008 Cejrowski announced his intention to abandon his Polish citizenship and acquire the Ecuadorian one instead, due to his disenchantment with the European Union, citing high taxes and problems with obtaining visas. The Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security has identified his
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account as a notable propagator of
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in Poland. He has been listed in the ''Brown Book'' of the "Never Again" Association, compiled to monitor neo-fascism in Poland, the group has also highlighted his racist promotion of 5G and
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. In 2018 the Rainbow Project condemned a scheduled appearance by Cejrowski at Belfast’s Strand Arts Centre due to his history of
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,
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and misogony. In April 2021 a right-wing magazine ''
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'' published an interview with Cejrowski, wherein he expressed his contempt for the
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movement and his belief in the superiority of Christianity and Western civilization.


Religion

Cejrowski is a hard line
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. He has stated that as far as the Bible is concerned, he prefers
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– he likes when God is speaking to him directly, telling him what is good and what is sinful, and what to do. He is also a known critic of the former
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, calling him a
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. Cejrowski postulates, that Catholic priests should be exempt from the rule of law in a given country, instead being accountable only to their church's hierarchy. He adds, that most priests who supposedly molested kids are gay, thus perpetuating the myth of gays being more prone to paedophilia than other sexual orientations. Cejrowski is also strongly against
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. In one interview he said "I wish abortion clinics could burn down and abortion providers get shot".


See also

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Janusz Korwin-Mikke Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke (; born 27 October 1942), also known by his initials JKM or simply as Korwin, is a Polish far-right politician, paleolibertarian and author. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018. He was the ...


References

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