UTV

Have you ever voluntarily watched those terrible local TV stations? Here we have one of those: UTV. Usually I just switch to their channel to watch DW-TV (which is not much better, but they show Auto, Motor, Sport TV…). So today there was no channel from DSTV available and I watched UTV. I could not watch it for more than ten minutes. I mean it was like being tortured and I am no masochist at all.

The speakers a…r…e……s…o……s…l…o…w……t…h…a…t……I…...h…a… d……t…o……f…o…r…c…e……a…g…a…i…n…s…t……t…h…e……u…r…g…e……t…o……f…a…l…l……a…s…l…e…e…p

What is worse than the slow speakers is the nonsense news they broadcast. They are full of meaningless buzzwords. The news is so shallow and I think mostly bought. It is more an ongoing commercial. Speaking about commercials – indeed they are as bad as the news.

I should buy a VCR and tape an hour of UTV, submit it a human rights commission. It is close to torture, in my opinion. Okay, I admit ten minutes are not enough to be allowed to make general statements, but I watched it for some minutes ago and it has never been better

OH NO! I am wrong I also watched M7’s speech at the Meeting of the African Development Bank. That was great. He covered everything, exhaustively, without commercial breaks.

But except from those single journalistic masterpieces: Could someone please provide funding for hiring some good journalists! Anyone who has passed Journalism 101 would be appreciated.