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How Do You Keep Them Tuning In Once They’ve Been To FarmVille?
siren song The digital platform debate has been pushed off the table. The audience, as usual, won. Next to the podium is local versus national, or hyper-local versus quasi-national. How to keep them happy – and tuned in – won’t be easy…or cheap.

 

 

Censorship in a time of austerity
taboo subjects

Portuguese public radio RDP Antena 1 morning current affairs program Este Tempo was pulled from the air last week (January 23). The cancellation following a string of unflattering reports about the Angolan government by journalist Pedro Rosa Mendes was, said some Portuguese media watchers, not a coincidence. The program’s producers and reporters were told of the decision two days earlier. Public broadcaster RTP Director-General Luís Marinho said the decision had been made “some time ago,” reported Publico.pt (January 25).

Sr. Rosa Mendes has been a constant critic of the Angolan regime, winning awards for his writing and broadcasts as well as defamation lawsuits from Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos and Russian billionaire Arcadi Gaydamak, who holds honorary Angolan citizenship. The January 18th commentary on Este Tempo criticized a special broadcast from Angola by public television channel RTP1. “Angola is one of the taboo subjects in Portugal,” he observed.

Speaking to a European Parliament conference on the relationship between austerity economics and press freedom (February 1), Sr. Rosa Mendes called the decision to end the program by RTP director-general Luís Marinho an “act of censorship.” In a statement, RTP denied the charge.

RDP Antena 1 deputy news director Ricardo Alexandre resigned (February 2), which RDP sources, quoted by Publico, say was unrelated and also planned for some time. The Portuguese Parliament as approved, but not moved forward on privatizing public broadcasting channels because of the country’s dire economic situation. (JMH)

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