What is it all about? The daily found out that the anticorruption police are investigating Rath: The police suspect that he badly administered the management of the Czech Medical Chamber, particularly the publishing of medical magazine Tempus Medicorum. The police are also investigating how it is possible that the chamber got nothing from the publishing of the magazine while Rath was getting good money from its publisher.

Rath is also in dispute with the Association of Pharmaceutical Companies. They are fighting over the medication bill that would increase patient co-payments. The association paid for an ad in Mladá fronta Dnes some time ago, which encouraged patients to protest against the bill.

This sufficed for Rath to create a conspiracy theory: Pharmacists pay for an ad and the newspaper writes about the investigated minister. Absurd. It is important to remind the minister two things. First: In newspapers like Mladá fronta Dnes, publishing ads is strictly separated from what such newspapers write. Second: Before the elections, the Social Democratic Party had ads there, too. So does Mladá fronta Dnes plot against the party's Prague representative, Rath?

Rath obviously said his words in an emotional state. He probably knows now that he should apologize for an unfounded attack on the independence of Mladá fronta Dnes. An honest man would do that immediately, Čásenský concludes.

It will happen in a year's time that Czechs will be able to find 1,000 films on the Internet that will satisfy every movie enthusiast, at least according to Seznam.cz representatives, who announced the coming of their new service Kinomania.cz, Aleš Borovan writes in Hospodářské noviny June 22.

However, there are reasons for skepticism. We have heard similar promises before. Just remember Český Telecom's Web site Starzone, which was presented in a bombastic way and today leads a miserable existence. By the way, even Seznam.cz's chief, Ivo Lukáčovič, was very moderate in his speech, and for good reason. There are numerous factors that could kill the project, the first being its content. It is vital for the project to enjoy support from Czech producers as well as from foreign distributors. The first group has not hesitated and has already placed its products on Kinomania, for example the megahit Snowboarders. Talks with the country's major producer, Czech Television, look promising as well. Still, producers themselves will have to fight the powerful lobby of cinema operators and DVD and VHS dealers who will be quite logically losing money on the net.

The second key factor could be quality. The movies might be free, but fans used to pirate recordings are nevertheless accustomed to DVD quality and high-standard dubbing or subtitles.

This amounts to no revolution in cinematography, not yet; there are too many ifs coming with the offer, Borovan writes.