Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Welcome to state run media

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

The little children in the SLP are clueless about growing and turning around the economy. In accordance with their limitations of acumen, they are doing what they know best to win the next elections, and that is, to create jobs for their yardfowls.

Saint Lucia is idiot country!

March 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Anonymous said...

I agree. The National Broadcasting Network has been established as an SLP propaganda machine and the key workers are the propagandists, the mules.

March 26, 2013 at 11:46 AM
Anonymous said...

You people are ridiculous! This happens under both regimes. And by the way, what media do you believe the government (note I said government and not party) will use? The privately owned media? Cannot be!!!

We are so myopic in our assessments that if it is not red or yellow, then there is nothing else.

Think before you'll aper everything another tells you or you hear. THINK PEOPLE, THINK!!!

March 26, 2013 at 6:12 PM
Anonymous said...

Hiring consultants from yesteryear will get you, er, yesteryear's results maybe?! I don't recall any government boasting about the viability of RSL. In fact, successive administrations - perhaps over the last 25 years - have underscored its revenue problems.

Bringing in "programming gurus" alone will not put RSL in the black. You need someone who is innovative and equally adept at business. Truth is the less input the state has, the better.

Entities like NPR and PBS don't only rely on state funding but on donorship from viewers. (We are not in a similar position!) PBS, at least, has instructional programming - attracting respected journalists like Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley.

I'm not sure what the target age demographic for RSL is but hardly anyone (18-45 with spending power?) I know listens regularly. The only time they're guaranteed to tune in is during a hurricane or storm watch.

Times have changed. Allow RSL its independence, with perhaps two or so hours of state-driven programming. And, for the love of Lucia, get some fresh-faced innovators in there. Quit doing the same things, expecting different results.

March 27, 2013 at 1:09 AM
Anonymous said...

There are clear indications that the National Broadcasting Network (NBN) is not designed to be an independent entity. One reason is because the Media people here are not professional; they prefer to be the "mouth piece" for the politician in power. They rely in the main on press releases coming from already biased sources or from those who are considered job providers. Moreover, media workers here seem too lazy, a truly saint Lucian pastime, to even think or act with independence and impartiality.

March 27, 2013 at 12:06 PM
Anonymous said...

Blogger above, it's even funnier when there's a section boldly titled "Press Releases" in a national newspaper.

I'm not advocating that they snub advertisers but surely there must be another way - one that would completely separate PR from hard news. A way that wouldn't compromise the newspaper's credibility. (Simple: monetize the practice by offering advertisers a fortnightly package for flyer inserts.)

It's especially egregious when spurious statements from political parties are carried verbatim.

March 27, 2013 at 4:18 PM
Anonymous said...

repent you all sinners.

March 29, 2013 at 10:27 AM
jeff daniel said...

yea slp are up to something

March 30, 2013 at 1:47 PM

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