A week later, we learned, again from the press, that Mr Ji Hoda had been appointed. However, I understand why the media fiction about the conspiracy of the two strongest parties is being disseminated. It is being disseminated by those who, in 1998, after the elections, lost power to which they had become so painfully accustomed. That is the only way for them to gain power again. And if one pretext does not work, maybe a different one will.
Nothing is a more beautiful pretext than struggle for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
The notion that Czech public service Television has, until now, been in its news and current affairs a neutral, objective and balanced station, is for me rather comical. Whenever I have watched Czech TV, I have always concluded that this was a 4Coalition television station. Nobody has ever protested why the mortality rate of Czech TV's chief executives is so high. Something is obviously rotten in the state of television. That is why I would like to see a systemic solution.