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Shkruar nga Pamfleti
There have been many reactions to the closure of Albanian Radio Television, following statements made on Friday afternoon by Prime Minister Edi Rama, who openly criticized the way RTSH is managed, calling it a failure.
A harsh criticism of the prime minister has recently come from director Osman Mula, one of the names who has dedicated his entire life to this institution.
Through a post, he has accused Prime Minister Edi Rama at length of his control over the media and his use of public television for personal interests.
According to the director, behind these statements by the head of government, lies another scenario, the construction of towers, the projects of which have been in the prime minister's office for years.
Full post: This has been your goal for 13 years now. I'm not worried that you don't watch RTSH, but when the media army, both private and public, serves you and only you, with the message and determination "either with me or to hell", this worries me.
This is your principle. Well, aren't you the one who ordered and promised the journalists which of them would be the most diligent director general of RTSH and that they, after being appointed, would make the staff serve you? The others acted like you, but you were seriously mistaken. You created such a sick nepotism that, from their incompetence and servility towards you, they get fed up or disgust the screen, that now you are ready to throw them off the bridge (as you usually do after squeezing them).
Now, who is the Albanian Public Radio and Television, this is known, because it has been operating for 70 years and for 50 years it was the only station, but it kept the Albanian public alive. Every country in the world has a national public television, as it is of special importance and develops national problems, broadcasts the main events of its state, unlike private stations that are based on competition and absorbing advertising in every way.
It is not the duty of the Public Radio and Television to turn shows or programs into "Blue Electric", as you have some stations dear to your heart, where even hidden cameras were placed in the bathroom. Not watching the Albanian public station for 35 years is neither wisdom nor snobbery of the time to show how modern I am.
You are not an opposition leader today who can say tomorrow: “I will reform or destroy the Albanian Public Radio and Television”. You have been in power for 13 years and you command everything that is in Albania today. Do you remember when in 2014 you demolished the Italian television Agon Channel because you saw it as an opponent. From the start you started wrong: you have to respect different opinions, this is democracy, but you do not accept it, because you are violent.
You also bear responsibility for RTSH, because you appoint the management staff in RTSH, in KKRT and with the majority in the RTSH Steering Council. You have representatives from all sectors on your side; even the 40 projects of the last year were realized in RTSH by your own people, both in the studio and in podcasts, sucking up the budget with large payments that plunged the institution into financial collapse. Don't play indifferent, because you intentionally do not sponsor Radio Television, because you don't even like it. You want the land there, because you will build towers, and don't bring it from China that you have in your heart, but say bluntly that you will demolish it, since you have been keeping the tower project in your office for years.
You also sent us a deputy, supposedly your opponent, and you accompanied him with two people to show him the way and brought him to the door of Radio Television. After looking at him carefully, he said: “Towers can be built here”. This was your Goni, a politician who is just starting his political career and is starting over and mocking the sweat of hundreds and hundreds of employees who worked for decades at that television. Radio Television is owned by itself and has finances protected by Albanian taxes. It is a member of the EBU, for which a delegation came and agreed on an even more modern technological development, how to preserve finances and how to absorb advertising. For this reason, we sent a delegation headed by Mrs. Eni Vasili, general director of Radio Television Shqiptar.
In the few months we have been there, we have corrected the finances, organized the units and departments, delegated work to all the links in RTSH and set the schedule, since broadcasting on TVSH with so many stations did not leave a trace. Above all, we removed the psychological nerve of fear, which had become like a police station in Radio Television. People were so scared about the next day.
We increased your salaries, gave you hope, and in recent monitoring, RTSH rose several notches. And you come up with the idea of a ruler and only curse and curse people you yourself have appointed. Don't mess with RTSH; turn your eyes to your government, because half of them are in prison. When you don't see us, why do you send us groups with 3-year-old letters from stations that you love, when for 3 years they should be dealing with festivals, when the institution itself has its own employees?
Why then, when you don't watch television, do you invite the winning song to your podcast, just as you invite the winner of your "Big" to show how much they follow you? You can't tell me, nor my colleagues who worked with Kiço Fotiçalli, Virgjil Kule, Vera Zheji, Haki Bejleri, Tefta Radin, Dhimitër Gjoka, etc., because they were colossus of the microphone and not moderators like you. Then it's not up to you to deal with that institution and deny it, because it doesn't honor you.
Since it doesn't help you, don't insult the directors you brought in yourself; it's not moral. Why do you help private stations with large budgets and advertising rights, with sponsorships of shows from both the government and the municipality, with staggering amounts every year, and they invite you to wash up and give you a cup in your hand so that you can donate it to someone who won the national lottery? Aren't you the one who appointed two general directors at RTSH: one ended up in prison and the other a candidate? Who is responsible?
Those artists that you take on a plane and pay for from the government, not just once, but on every trip, to use in every campaign in halls for the diaspora. You even give half of the park at the Lake to one, because he was supposed to give a recital. You also have these artists on street posters and that servile staff of yours that you have in the prime minister's office makes the selection of who is with you and who is against you.
You don't ask about any artistic institution, because you ruined them all, like the cinema, the National Theater, the circus, the variety show and now most recently the RTSH. We all want the Albanian Radio and Television to be reformed. We all want reform, but in RTSH you have nieces and nephews and people with great and small children who serve you. And if we take them away, you will bring them back again.
That institution will survive, even though you are vindictive, conjunctural, anti-RTSH public. You think you can erase everything here and you have your eyes on how to fix the world. Fix yourself and the state, because today you are the most talked about person in the Balkans and Europe for state corruption. You are so in love with yourself and the towers, that you even want your portrait there at the top. Well, Skanderbeg is there, there is no need for another knight. You told us that you haven't seen us for 35 years; we don't see you either. I haven't even been following you for 20 years, because as long as you appear on the screen, I can't let go of you, because I press the button.
For years, in December, when there are artistic activities like the New Year's festival or concert, the screen opens, you rejoice like a child, everything looks more beautiful along with the bags that people carry for the New Year's table, but as January comes and your parliament begins, everything fades, everything wrinkled. This comes as a result of politics that exudes bile. I remember the former president of America, Nixon, when he resigned from the Watergate scandal. And in his first interview, as soon as he appeared before journalists, he said: "I stepped down as president, because the hatred I held deep in my soul towards the media tormented me, it would not leave me alone, I could not reason, so I took the path."
Bravo Osman Mula