Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.
Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.
I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.
News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.
I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.