RDP e RTP-África vistas "do outro lado" A matéria já tem uns dias, mas vale pelo ponto de vista africano sobre as emissões da RTP África e RDP África. A propósito de uma reunião de ministros dos PALOP relacionados com os mass media, recentemente realizada em Lisboa, o secretário de Estado Português Domingos Jerónimo terá manifestado a "total disponibilidade" do seu Governo para apoiar os media dos países africanos de língua portuguesa. Eis o comentário da agência All Africa.com, que se define como "the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide": "'We must bet on these channels to and for the Lusophone world", Jeronimo declared. But, despite their names, in fact there is very little specifically African about them. RTP-Africa is full of Portuguese football matches, the Portuguese news, Portuguese soap operas, and third rate Portuguese game shows (including Portuguese versions of such British TV games as "Who wants to be a Millionaire ?", and "The Weakest Link"). There is no way that a Mozambican or Angolan audience will identify with such programming." E sobre o argumento do governante português de que estes meios se dirigem a 200 milhões de falantes da língua de Camões: "In fact, most of these 200 million people live in Brazil and are most unlikely to tune into Portuguese channels aimed at Africa. Jeronimo also makes the mistake of assuming that people living in former Portuguese colonies speak Portuguese. In fact, the 1997 census showed that the great majority of Mozambicans speak no Portuguese at all, making it a nonsense to describe the country as "Lusophone", other than in the narrow, official sense."