BTV news
BTV news is degenerating day by day. If someone asks a BTV viewer what is most disgusting to him/her, then the answer will be 'viewing the footage of BTV news', specially at 8.00pm and 10.00pm. Like all other days, the state-owned BTV failed to cover the news of the grisly grenade attack on an Awami League rally on 21 August, 2004. While the three Bangladeshi private channels were telecasting special bulletins, the foreign media were busy highlighting this heinous grenade attack. All national newspapers published full page news of the incident. But BTV appeared to be totally oblivious of what had happened.
Neither the BNP nor the previous AL government gave autonomy to the state-owned BTV. But the two major political parties are firmly committed to the idea of having an autonomous BTV. Commitment does not seem to mean anything in our context.
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