RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

influence our selection when we wish to create for ourselves this ог that position to be able to solve other problems which аге directly of a programme nature but not in this sense. In saying this, I wish to say that in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as is well known, almost one whole session of the LCY Central Committee Presidency was devoted to this very problem. Conclusions were passed at that session which make it possible for us in this respect to be both more independent and more persistent, I might even say firmer, under the condition, I stress, that we аге sufficiently professional and socio-politically firrn and thorough in what we do. In connection with the question of pressure, the matter of provincialism is another matter. I consider that the pressure from the so-called provinces for presence on a TV programme, a TV information programme, will continue to exist and even increase. This will be all the more the case if the provinces cease to be what they are in the classic sense and initiate, develop and demonstrate life in all its dimension. I do not claim that there is no provincial view of television and publicity in this requirement but I do claim that there is a justified reason for it, that there is a justified desire for publicity, a justified desire on the part of people to see and hear what they do and in which they exert many efforts being given »public recognition«. Here, in my opinion, the line should be drawn between the provincial view of television and the provincial view of publicity and a justified desire for publicity. I am convinced that we shall never be able to reconcile our possibilities and these destres and that the situation will become more and more difilcult and complicated and that it will require from us increasingly qualified and professional and pohtical decision-making, an increasingly high level of both poltiical and professional qualification in order to reconcile these two factors to the best possible extent. I wish to say that the level, number and degree of information from the provinces does not demonstrate the provincial level of some programme. The provincial nature of an item of information, or a programme, has a deeper and more essential character and it is expressed first and foremost in the provincial stand on both the programme and the item of information, on the message and on the goal. This provinciality is evident in Bosnia and Herzegovina, for example, in Sarajevo television in, on account of long practice, everythmg which is not accepted by other televisions or regions being considered as less important. Work thereon is done with less attention and not so much importance is attached there to. It is frequently forgotten that the viewer is ali important, It is frequently forgotten that we аге a republican institution and that we work first and foremost for that republic. The roots of such a provincial view go deep back in history and this is not the place to discuss such a

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