The criticality in public broadcasting

Abstract

In two recent interviews, we saw representatives of national broadcasters failing to ask the right kind of questions and being woefully unprepared to challenge their interviewees. In a TVM interview with Ronald Bugeja, broadcast on March 23, seasoned television presenter John Demanuele merely accepted the revisionist narrative spun by the author of a book that seeks to reinterpret Adolf Hitler’s intentions, behaviour and policies. In what can be seen as a propagandist attempt to make the public reconsider what happened in Nazi Germany, the Hitler apologist sought to describe the dictator as being an innocent bystander in one of history’s worst genocides and most abominable series of war crimes.