FLASH
Shkruar nga Arben Papadhopulli
RTSH does not need to end. RTSH needs to be reformed.
At the age of 55, after a long and modest contribution to Albanian cinematographic and audiovisual developments — including collaborations with the public broadcaster RTSH, I can no longer remain silent in the face of radical and destructive writings directed at this institution. Especially when they come from figures like Mr. Baton Haxhiu, an individual who is neither a creator nor a representative of free thought in the true sense, but only a product purified and fanatically protected by the most contaminated political currents of Albania.
Let us be clear: Mr. Baton has made no measurable contribution to the development of Albanian critical thought, to quality journalism, or to the protection of the public interest. On the contrary, he is a serial beneficiary of the image that Albanian politics has created, without any merit beyond clientelistic ties and unwavering loyalty to those in power. RTSH does not need to end. RTSH needs to be reformed.
RTSH is not perfect. No one denies this. But to publicly mock RTSH, to call for its extinction as a kind of political fad, is to demand that the public media surrender to the portals of the "Batons of Every Night", which interpret the thoughts and decision-making of Rama, Berisha, Trump or Van der Leyen, with such a ridiculous seriousness that it makes you want to vomit.
It's like saying: Let's get rid of the public broadcaster and hand over the public debate to gossip columns and pseudo-commentators who fill the screens with empty chatter and conspiracy theories.
RTSH needs an aggressive programming strategy, not a funeral.
RTSH employees have begun, with great difficulty and without real institutional support, to create fantastic programs in various genres: documentaries, series, cultural shows, original content. These are the people who need to be supported, not those who come from abroad, throw mud and then return to their comfortable lives of interpreters of foreign agendas.
RTSH may be bureaucratic, rigid, and sometimes tired, but it is not a worthless institution. And it does not have to become a target for those who have no connection whatsoever to the public mission of broadcasting, and who come and go on screen simply to get a salary or a place on the government's invitation list.
RTSH should neither be a propaganda fortress nor a ground for social experimentation with public opinion. It should be deeply reformed, not to become "trendy", but to become efficient, honest and courageous in content. And for this, we do not need the Batons, nor their imported advice, nor their moralizing from television commentators who sell wisdom for the opinions of others.
RTSH is the home of the public. And it will be defended, with the mind, with the voice, and with the creativity it deserves.
Destruction is not reform. And public service is not a matter of fashion, but an irreplaceable democratic necessity.
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