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Tomáš Hanák and the cafés defend democracy by fighting against democracy

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I was switching these TV programs when I was interested in an interview on the ČT24 channel by a Czech television editor with the actor Tomáš Hanák, the leading protagonist of the Sklep theater. It's summer, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival is taking place, and so the screen, like every year at this time, is full of characters from the world of the film industry. As long as the actors talked about the film, it was classic stories from the filming, nothing against that, although I don't need his affected diction at all. But then they honed in on politics.

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Czech television as Al-Qaeda opposition

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If anyone still doubted that Czech Television is the media organ of the parties of the former Fial's government coalition, the events of the last few weeks completely mislead them. What the combined forces of opposition politicians and activists, together with managers, editors and other employees of Czech Television and Czech Radio are currently demonstrating in connection with the proposal to change the funding of public media, is far beyond the standard practice of politics and standard pluralistic, balanced, versatile and objective journalism.

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