THERE is, in our currently benighted country, a privately funded TV station whose mantra is “Love us or hate us, you cannot ignore us.”
Unable to ignore the station’s fervent socio-political agenda which relentlessly targets its sponsors’ perceived political enemies (without ever permitting them the journalistic nicety of the ‘right of reply’) I approached the BCCSA (Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA) on behalf of all who detest the station’s obvious bias, lack of fair play, and relentless, divisive, indoctrination.
This authority, whose remit suggests close monitoring of our media, is itself suspect in that instead of actively governing balance and fairness in the broadcast media, it actually sits back and awaits individual complaints with regard to specific incidents of unacceptable transgressions.
Few hard-pressed citizens have time or energy to pursue such matters.
The response to my suggestion that the BCCSA is a complete waste of tax-payers’ money unless proactive, rather than merely reactive to complaints, with regard to the brazen bias of this privately funded TV station was most revealing.
That response of, “We are not tax-payer funded”, begs the question of where that ‘authority’s financial support actually does come from.
Are you interested enough to enquire ? I did….but, to date, nil response.
Could it be that the roots of ‘State Capture’ go deeper than we thought?
Harry Stottle
Kloof
