Television. “An industry to sell audiences to advertisers”. Well perhaps. Our three colleagues, Licínio from Mozambique, Isabel from Mexico, and Talgat from Uzbekistan seem to disagree. They tell their stories straight and passionately, but avoid the rhetoric of drama. They do not want to please us. Their common subject is human despair. They want to make us angry and even feel guilty. They seem to believe even now what Lord Reith, the founder of BBC, established as a guiding rule: “TV must inform educate and entertain its audience”.
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