Media
The salt mine helped inspire the Labyrinth scenes in Bolesław Prus' 1895 historical novel, Pharaoh. In 1995, the Preisner's Music, a compilation of film music by the Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner, was recorded by Sinfonia Varsovia in the chapel in the Wieliczka salt mine. The chapel is often referred to as having the best acoustics in Europe. In 2010 it was proposed to UNESCO World Heritage to add Bochnia Salt Mine nearby, to the original inscription.
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“The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
“The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)