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"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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