By: Vinko Vasle
In the middle of the August heat, the new general director of RTV SLO, Andrej Grah Whatmough, outlined a new programme scheme for the public house, which is discriminatory, unbalanced, separatist, nationalist, racist and even Home Guard-ish. Due to such assessment by the concerned Tanja Fajon, who received three phone calls, the “burek” coalition’s intellectual guild met and prepared its scheme for when they will one day take power.
“Zvezdana” show is not cancelled, but is included in the editorial board of the scientific programme with a new show “Od urina do urologije”, where it will also have a monthly agricultural advisory show “Kako trava raste”. Studio City will not only be twice a month, as planned by the Home Guard and the far-rights, but will be broadcasted once a day, and it will be repeated on the other two programmes. During the election campaign, the show will be broadcasted twice a day, was the request of Luka Mesec’s Levica party, because otherwise they will not go into a coalition. Regarding the concerns that the host of the show Marcel Štefančič is already slightly tired and ruined and often does not know what he is asking and who is in the studio, Matjaž Nemec suggested that he be given an infusion twice a month, which was accepted by acclamation.
Matjaž Han was of the opinion that the show “Pričevalci” should not be cancelled, as required by the ZZB Liberation Front, because the right-wingers would make a chaos, but it should be given an appropriate term. The prevailing opinion was that the show would remain on the TV schedule on Tuesdays at 2 am, but due to the aggravated epidemiological situation and the financial situation of the house, it would not be broadcast indefinitely.
“Burek” party bosses each have their own term
In addition to the well-known host Katarina Kresal, the show “Zadnja beseda” will also introduce co-host Violeta Tomić, and Alenka Bratušek also proposed herself, which was slightly controversial for Marjan Šarec, because the anti-corruption commission could intervene again. However, Šarec then proposed himself as the co-host of the show because he knows a lot about women and also because the show needs gender balance. Matjaž Nemec had a concern, saying that the show cannot be balanced by someone who publicly identifies with a stupid sexual organ. Šarec then left the meeting in protest for two minutes, but when he returned, he demanded that he be allowed a self-interview in the “prime time” once a week, otherwise they can kiss a coalition with him goodbye. Matjaž Nemec apologised to Šarec for the stupidity of his sexual organ and added that it was not so bad. However, Marko Bandelli thought that it was not in accordance with the law on RTV that Šarec would have that interview “which I can call masturbating because he will be by himself”, so it was decided that all heads of coalition parties have their own term.
The Sunday show “Moje mnenje” by Tanja Gobec is included in the TV diary every day shortly before the weather forecast, if the journalist agrees to it due to known problems with her spine. I agree, Gobec opened the door of the meeting room for a moment and closed it again.
Nataša Sukić added that the excellent journalist Eugenija Carl, who was awarded the title of Slovene of the Year and the Guardian Dog Award for her salad, was rather neglected, which raised the pressure on Fajon, who said that not everyone could be Miša Molk. Sukić explained that she had in mind that Eugenija was underestimated on TVS and that she should get a popular music show to take a break from difficult topics. With the remark that viewership is not the most important thing for public TV. Marko Koprivec especially praised Carl for sending Možina to a container with hazardous waste with his interview about LGBT.
Špela Kožar gets a weekly show “Fascists and Nazis among us”, the current interview on Sunday evenings will be prepared by Ivan Gale, because he deserves a little thanks, and Miša Molk, if she manages to prepare cosmetically in a week. Koprivec suggested that Gale have a conversation with Boris Kidrič for the first interview, but Nemec had a concern because Kidrič was already dead. Fajon argued that Democrats do not discriminate between the living and the dead, and communists definitely do not.
Vinko Vasle is a long-time journalist, publicist, satirist and writer.