Nearly a year ago, Belgian public service television began broadcasting a program called “LES PIEDS DANS LE PLAT”. It is hosted by the “robin Hood” of television journalism in Belgium, Jean-Claude Defosse, and his companion, Bernard Wathelet. The aim of the program is to sift out and examine anything that goes wrong in public service.This particular edition of the program should be of special interest to INPUT since the subject is about how public television in Belgium is being besieged, if not destroyed, by budgetary attrition, managerial decisions, and structural changes being imposed by government decree. Participants in this public forum include the government minister responsible for public television, the network’s managing director, members of the board, union leaders, personnel who are being forced into premature retirement, other employees, and representatives of opposition political parties. The result is heated, open, often angry exchange about the role and future of public television. One of the participants who is harshly challenged in the forum sits on the board of INPUT! Is the kind of television only public broadcasting and a respect for its particular mandate could do!