Honestly, the TCV as it stands is no longer necessary!
In all honesty, TCV (Televisão de Cabo Verde) is no longer necessary. The nation, both at home and in the diaspora, no longer needs it, because it has completely lost its public utility. It has become a comical litany, a theater without color, without plurality, full of lying slants and marked by burning stains from the past. And if it has lost its public usefulness, then it must, by the same logic, also lose its public resources.
Today, TCV functions as a runaway propaganda machine for a single party, and should therefore be declared what it really is: a machine of public uselessness. Furthermore, it is well known that the PAICV's "Messi" at TCV was on the verge of joining Francisco Carvalho's list in the last local elections. The only reason she didn't join was because, at the last moment, someone realized that having two sisters with direct influence in the same public institution would be too much for the PAICV. Janira herself vetoed the journalist-commissioner's name for councillor of the CMP. The journalist-commissioner who went to her inauguration all in yellow... always looking provocative!
However, a promise was negotiated - and promising is, in fact, the specialty of the PAICV's new boss, Francisco Carvalho. He was promised a place on the list for the 2026 legislative elections. And even though we know that Francisco's promises are worth what they are and rarely come true, we waited. She's on the waiting list! If the promise comes true, it won't be unprecedented either: the transit of journalists to political office has already become the norm on the other side of the street! Following the Manual that came from HELL!
Meanwhile, with this promise in her pocket, the journalist has become even more aggressive. She attacks the MPD and the government on a daily basis, manipulates interviews, puts words in the mouths of interviewees and brazenly campaigns live on the news. Every day.
It begs the question: what does the TCV management lack to see what even some sincere PAICV activists have already seen? What is this spell that keeps notoriously unprepared people in the same positions for 20 or 30 years, even with mediocre performances?
In this context, and in the name of the nation's best interests, I would argue that TCV's management should provisionally suspend all its political programs, including partisan news and interviews. A thorough and urgent reorganization should begin, refreshing TCV's outdated image, bringing in new blood, highlighting competent journalists and not commissars, creating more relevant content and rotating human resources that have been crystallized for decades. In the public media, we don't defend professionals who exercise their ideology in the course of their work and who are party supporters in the course of a job paid for by taxpayers!
Cape Verde deserves better PUBLIC TELEVISION!
And finally, I would like to issue a public warning to the management of Televisão Pública: seriously, can't you see that TCV's bias has been tarnishing the image of this public media organization for a long time? This organization - its partisanship - has divided Cape Verdeans into two major poles! Is that what the board wants? How many thousands of Cape Verdeans have stopped opening and watching TCV? I'm sorry gentlemen, I say that with sorrow, because we have all failed, TCV's public credibility today is down to those who support Paicv and a few bad ones!
Is that what you want?
Is that what you want?
Maika Lobo on Opais.cv
