The revolution that will never come - Abraao Vicente
The MpD is being targeted by the state media. How long will we let this farce continue? Pretend we're talking about freedom of the press, when we're only dealing with a group that wants to keep a state-owned company ideologically hijacked?
The real revolution would be to see RTC journalists pick up their cameras, turn off their public microphones and found their own own private channel. Then we could applaud them: they would do journalism according to their wishes and ideologies, and not under the guise of a "public service" that increasingly serves the agenda of a few.
But no. They prefer to stay in the state house, paid for by all of us, to claim the right to attack those who pay their salaries. It's the perfect paradox: freedom financed by the taxpayer.
The case of the suspended director of TCV is yet another episode in the soap opera "I'm a journalist until it suits me". The moment you accept being director, you stop being just a journalist. You become a public manager, with administrative duties and responsibilities that are not hidden behind freedom of the press. Discipline is not censorship, it's management.
Let's be honest and pragmatic: the RTC is a public company, not an ideological trade union. It is fed from the state budget, and therefore from the pockets of all of us. And no journalist, director or employee should be above the law, regulation or public ethics.
Perhaps one day that revolution will come. The day when some people walk out of the front door and create a channel where they can finally do what they want (because they can and will never be prevented from saying it, publishing it, expressing it), but with their own money. Until then, we'll continue to watch the same play, with the same actors, the same feigned indignation and the same predictable applause.
And as for the President of the Republic, always ready to defend the "freedom" of others while ignoring the cynicism of his own past, you only have to listen to those who have lived through his mandate to realize that coherence is a luxury he has never been able to afford. It's a good thing that some have spoken out this time. The mask is falling.
