Those of us who went through the interview of the present director general of the MBC in Saturday’s edition of l’express must have been totally bemused by the effrontery in which he ‘accepts’ that the MBC has and continues to be the doormat of those in power! In fact, his comments show a total disrespect towards the most important segment of the broadcasting business – the viewers. This is even more unacceptable when it is known that the MBC obtains a fair share of its revenue from the viewer license fee.

There is no doubt, that the MBC has been for the last two decades or so at the epicentre of systematic governmental abuse, but to accept it as a fact not to be questioned or even be bothered about is shocking.